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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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Catacomb Saints
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Saami group
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Bangle
The not so ‘dark side’
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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Books on bamboo
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The four terrestrial elements
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Botanical Gardens
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Missions in the Americas
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The Bodleian and the King
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