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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Rene Descartes
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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Арба (Казахстан)
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Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro (c.1514-1518)
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Heating Source: Hearth
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Russian mother with children
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Immortal fame
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Canadian Skin Shirt
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Young soldier in the Middle East