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Newton's prism experiment
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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John Danvers' plate
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Church at Tornio
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Sundials
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Saami woman
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Soldier portraits