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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Paper flowers
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Ivalo valley
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Plate to print: process
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Три военные фотографии Усмона Акрамова (Таджикистан)
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Haida Helmet (3D)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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