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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Drawing of a quern
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Plate to print: carrot
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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