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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Automata
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Queenette’s Dining Club
Popes
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Week 6: Sites and Sources
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Saami group
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Ruin
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Languages of East Asia
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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