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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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Topography of the island of Hven
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Anatomical Theatres
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Languages of East Asia
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Monstrances
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Writing Systems
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Drawing of mountains
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Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Examination Papers (1978)
Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)