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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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The reception of De motu cordis
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Japanese pillar clock
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Gunpowder Warfare
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Russian woman
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Polish basket sellers
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Beer cellar
Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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​Boats on the Torne river
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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