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Bishops
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Mapping the moon
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
Image for ‘An Explanation of the Cutts of two Porphyry Pillars in Aegypt’, in Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (London, December 1685)
Books
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
Image for Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Imperial Eagle with Emblems of the Celtis Society, 1507.
Printed model to printed image: Senecio
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate, engraved by an unknown artist, and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 7, Tab. 12) (left).
Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA VMBELLARVM GENERALIS. cognationes S[ive]: affinitatis’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1).
Oldenburg's correspondence
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
Image for Man as Microcosm, from Robert Fludd, Anatomiae amphitheatrum, 1623
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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