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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Mould
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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Morisonian Herbarium
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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