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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Relics
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Beetles
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Cream seller
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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