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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Appendix: 'On architectural structures suitable for astronomical observations', folio 40r
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Lake Suolajarvi
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Models of Saami women
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Crucifixion in coral
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Russian woman
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Battle of Lützen (6 / 16 November 1632)
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Finnish man
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524-1535)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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