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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Lunar cycle
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Balagan (Central Asia)
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Anatomical Theatres
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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The four terrestrial elements
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Portrait of a Saami girl
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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Conical dial
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Polish basket sellers
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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New plants, new medicines
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