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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Bishops
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Repurposed buildings: churches
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Russian women
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
III.5 Common hierarchies
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Anatomical models
Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Invitation
'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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'Moon's fair beam'
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Central Oxford in 1578
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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