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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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Automata
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Clone of Bezoar
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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The Oxford Crown