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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Astrological tool
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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Drawing of a window
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From decoration to illustration
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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The four humours
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New plants from the New World
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The 15th-century printing types
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Naming plants
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