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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Russian basket seller
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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The Rosary
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Danger
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Orbis sensualium pictus, 1658
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Geber
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Naming plants
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Bembo Family's Sallust
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Headless Virgin and Child statue
August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Botanical Gardens
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‘Mount Bielastica’
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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