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15. Eyeglasses
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Lake Suolajarvi
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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A cook in the trenches
Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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Images and Objects in the Study of Seventeenth-Century Science
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A trip to the moon
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Saami cradle
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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