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Nova reperta: title page
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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​Boats on the Torne river
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Design of Stjerneborg
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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The first image of a Printing Shop
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Meydancıkkale
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Saami cradle
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Russian egg seller
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