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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Explore the Display Case
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Roadshow overview
Appendix: 'On architectural structures suitable for astronomical observations', folio 40r
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Sundials in antiquity
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Canadian Skin Shirt
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18. The astrolabe
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Models of a Saami couple
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Russian women
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Saami cradle
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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