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Mountains on the moon
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Thomas McGarry
The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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New-world diseases and treatments
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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A kiss from your daddy
Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Russian women
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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The Little Blue Book
Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Medial Wall Gyri Model
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De Sphera
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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