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IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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Author's inscription
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Russian man
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Arts End, 1610-12
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Russian women
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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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