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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Hooke's microscope
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Plate to print: carrot
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Russian mother with children
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Russian women
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Calendrical complications
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Mentioned in Despatches certificate
Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Church at Rovaniemi
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Drawing of a man
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