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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Worked in precious threads
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Fanny's Chickens
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Family portraits
Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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The early modern siege
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Cricket
The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Joan's Short Story
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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The Woman Who Did
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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