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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Dedication (cont.)
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Reindeer
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Gnomonics
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Drawing of a man
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Origin of coins in the Jordan Hoard
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ GALEATÆ VERTICILLATÆ Spicatæ. Betonica, Prunella, Bugula, Coris’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 11, Tab. 5) sponsored by Henry Compton (1631/2-1713).
Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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