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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Automata
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Insects
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA GENERALIS ICONUM SEMINUM UMBELLARUM’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1. Icon), sponsored by Peter Mews (1619-1706), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
Image for Herbarium specimen labelled ‘Malva hortensis major simplex. Single Hollyhocks’ [Jacob Bobart the Younger’s hand] [modern name: Alcea rosea L. (Malvaceae)] from Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus.
Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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Anatomical models
Ora et labora
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Bibliography
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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