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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Astronomical Device (3D)
Telegrams
Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Interior of a Finnish house
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Japanese pillar clock
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Timekeeping devices
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Examination Papers (1978)
13. Sugar
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Mountains on the moon
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Looking presidential
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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