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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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Calendrical complications
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
The Right to Homestead
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Plane dial
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Porter's note
The astrolabe
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Building the Bodleian
Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Russian man and boy
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Order in Council (1978)