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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Title page (vol. 2)
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Saami cradle
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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