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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Helioscope
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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Automata
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Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Behistun relief and inscription
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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A trip to the moon
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