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Printing in Venice
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Dutch Trade Routes
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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18. The astrolabe
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Notes for an article on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Recording stories and memories
Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Statue of Buddha
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Inflow water clock
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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