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T2: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Idrieus, satrap of Caria (351-344 BC).
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Invitation to Freshmen's Dinner
Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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The four humours
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Copper engraving
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Missions to Japan
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T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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‘Mount Bielastica’
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Flea
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Automata
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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