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16. Terrestrial longitude
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Saami bridegroom
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Saami man
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
Great azimuth semicircle
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Glory to Belgium
Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Hooke's microscope
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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15. Eyeglasses
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