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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Astrolabe table clock
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Столы (Таджикистан)
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Mould
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Scales Narrative
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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Secrets of the calendar
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
New-world diseases and treatments
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