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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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The Indian Institute
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Cantino world map, 1502
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Hierarchies
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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