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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Lighter
Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Portrait of a Saami man
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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History
Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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‘Monster House’
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Saami bride
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Saami man
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Russian man
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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