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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Christopher Wren
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Saami group
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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University Church
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Paper flowers
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Selden End, 1634-7
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'Moon's fair beam'
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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