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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Night Encounters
Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Professor B F McGuinness
II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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An unlikely duo
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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Lunar volvelle
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Chinese Alchemy
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