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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Geber
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Drawing of a window
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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Lunar cycle
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Disorder
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Picture postcards
A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Armillary Sphere
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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