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The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Newton's prism experiment
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Philosophers guiding research
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Hooke's microscope
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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3. Gunpowder
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Illustrations
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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