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The Tradescant family tomb
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Cap Badge
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Secrets of the calendar
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Drawing of Ukonsaari
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Russian women
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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A fragmented polity
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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The ancient papermaking process
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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