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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Bladder fish
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Automata
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Russian woman
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Saami woman
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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19. Copper engraving
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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