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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Domenico Gargiulo, Piazza del Mercato
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Vitruvius on architecture
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3. Gunpowder
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Hemispherical sundial
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Secrets of the calendar
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De Sphera
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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