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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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Clone of Portable Sundials
Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Chess-Man
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Ora et labora
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Head of a fly
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Certificates of appreciation (Kazakhstan)
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Islam in the 9th Century
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Morisonian Herbarium
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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