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Silver denarius
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Тюбетейка (Узбекистан)
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A mathematical model?
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Russian kitchen-maid
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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The World in 1700
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Drawing of a Bosnian woman
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Churches at Sodankylä
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BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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Rose Hughes' album
Astrolabe table clock
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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