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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Sphaera civitatis
Anatomy theatres
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Bird Rattle (3D)
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Bread roll
Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Nova reperta: title page
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Dedication (concluded)
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Chinese Alchemy
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Armillary Sphere
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Camera obscura
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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