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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Anatomical Theatres
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Telegrams
Mystics
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Russian kitchen-maid
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Comenius
Medial Wall Sulci Model
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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5. Mechanical clock
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Donum Dei
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A Scientific Revolution
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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The Woman Who Did
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