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Балаган (Центральная Азия)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Title page
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Central Oxford in 1578
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Origins of paper
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Anatomical engravings
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Saami couple
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Two kingfishers
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19. Copper engraving
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