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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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A view from Tibet
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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A fragmented polity
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Carried into exile
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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III.1 The university curriculum
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Movable type
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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Arts End, 1610-12
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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Anatomical videos
Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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A supra-national entity
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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