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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Quadrans Maximus
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Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Hierarchies
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Multiple ivory balls
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Russian peasant
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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The 1527 Giuntina
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Man
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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The Indian Institute
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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