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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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The Medieval Worldview
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Innumerable new stars
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Portable Sundials
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Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Tetzel as Indulgence Seller
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Apadana tribute reliefs
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Map of the New World, 1544
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‘Konjica, and Bridge over the Narenta’
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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