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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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The four terrestrial elements
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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Russian egg seller
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Models of Saami women
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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