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Head of a fly
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Saami cradle
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Relics
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Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Philosophers guiding research
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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