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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Introduction
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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Sphaera civitatis
Central Oxford in 1578
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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