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The oldest sundials
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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University of Helmstedt
T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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14. Oil paint
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Finding the qibla
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Nova reperta: title page
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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11. The Windmill
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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