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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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A trip to the moon
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Lithograph of Saami sleds
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Title page
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Introduction
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Innumerable new stars
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Cardo
Building the Bodleian
Spoon of reindeer antler
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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