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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Cream seller
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Joan's Short Story
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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Ocelot skull
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Saami mother and child
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Christopher Wren
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Cantino world map, 1502
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A view from Tibet
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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