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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Portable Sundials
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Saxon women
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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‘Mount Bielastica’
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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Rose Hughes' album
De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Paper flowers
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Clone of Medieval gardens
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