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Drawing of a Bosnian woman
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Soldier portraits
Key innovation: the escapement
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Zodiac Man
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Clone of Portable Sundials
Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Pay book
BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Lake Suolajarvi
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Anatomy theatres
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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