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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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The Rosary
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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