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Lake Suolajarvi
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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A box for going to sea?
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Finnish family
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Languages
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Portable Sundials
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Cardo
Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Mausoleum of Hadrian
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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