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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Saami woman
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Itinerary
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Anatomical engravings
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Shrapnel paper knife
David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Catacomb Saints
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Colleges
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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John Danvers' plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 8) sponsored by John Danvers.
VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
Image for Luther's New Testament, 1522