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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Astronomical tower clocks
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Chinese books before paper
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Pope as Antichrist
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Title page (vol. 2)
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Timeline
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Entrance Book (3D)
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Saami man
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Saxon woman
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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