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Rank Badge with Qilin (16th–Early 17th Century)
Rank badge with qilin, silk embroidery on silk gauze, unknown artist, 16th to early 17th century. This embroidered rank badge is from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was used to indicate military rank. Badges with a qilin, a Chinese mythological...
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17th-Century Siege Artillery Tactics
An early 17th-century illustration by Johann Jacob von Wallhausen showing the tactics of batteries of siege artillery to fire upon a specific point in the defensive fortifications.
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18th-Century Microscope
An early 18th-century microscope designed and made by John Marshall. It is a compound microscope, that is, it uses three lenses. Made of brass, wood, and other materials. (Science Museum, London)
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British Isles at the Beginning of the 10th Century
British Isles in 10th century represented with the coastline at the time.
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17th-Century Flintlock Mechanism
An example of a 17th-century flintlock firearm mechanism. A piece of flint was held in the vice which the trigger pulled down to strike a metal bar which created a spark to ignite the priming powder which then set off the main charge of gunpowder...
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Costa Rica, 16th century CE
Map of Costa Rica in the 16th century CE.
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5th Century BCE Demareteion Coin
An illustration of the so-called Demaretéion is a silver coin of ancient Syracuse (weighing around 43 g) rather rare and worth 10 drachmas. It is also known as a pentekontalitron because it was equivalent to 50 litrae (the litra was a silver...
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17th-century Musketeer Loading His Weapon
An illustration of a 17th-century musketeer loading his weapon. From a series of engravings in a Dutch 1608 arms manual The Exercise of Arms. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Monte Cassino in the 15th Century
Illustration of Monte Cassino in the 15th-century Nuremberg Chronicle. Published in Nuremberg, Germany, 1493.
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View of Edo Castle in the 17th Century
View of Edo on a pair of six-panel folding screens, 17th century.
