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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Woman and child
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 38r
Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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The printing process
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Saami woman
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Timekeeping devices
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Avarice
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Newton's prism experiment
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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