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The astrolabe
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Bicycle
Florey Building
Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Two kingfishers
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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Russian woman
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Russian man and woman
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Mapping the moon
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