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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Anatomical Theatres
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Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro (c.1514-1518)
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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Queenette’s Dining Club
Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Opium Banknote (Turkestan)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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New plants from the New World
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Anatomical models
Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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Private Lives
Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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