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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Sundials in the Renaissance
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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New-world diseases and treatments
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Morisonian Herbarium
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4. Printing
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Introduction
III.5 Common hierarchies
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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A satchel for a scholar
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Canadian Skin Shirt
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Drawing of Doboj fortress
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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