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The first image of a Printing Shop
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Ruin
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Planning the New Basilica
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Saami cradle
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China under the Song Dynasty
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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The Medieval Worldview
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Private Lives
Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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Meydancıkkale
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
Reformers
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