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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Saami cradle
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Three Wartime Photos of Usmon Akramov (Tajikistan)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Saxon woman
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Saami group
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Балаган (Центральная Азия)
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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