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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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3. Gunpowder
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Drawing of a quern
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Saami bride
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Models of Saami women
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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