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Newton's Principia Mathematica (1st edition)

Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was first published in Latin in 1687. It presents the three...

Book Physics English Scientific

9.9 Brilliant

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Magna Carta (1215 original copies)

Magna Carta was a royal charter issued in 1215 after negotiations between King John of England and rebellious barons at...

Manuscript Medieval Historical English

9.8 Brilliant

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Magna Carta

The Magna Carta, dating from 1215, represents a pivotal moment in legal history. This medieval English charter restricts...

Manuscript Charter Law Medieval

9.7 Brilliant

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Beowulf Manuscript (Cotton Vitellius)

The Beowulf Manuscript, officially designated as Cotton Vitellius A.xv, is a 10th-century codex held in the British Libr...

Manuscript Literature 10TH Century Anglo Saxon

9.6 Brilliant

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Cairo Geniza Documents

The Cairo Geniza documents are a collection of approximately 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments discovered in the Ben E...

Manuscript Medieval Jewish Cambridge Library

9.5 Brilliant

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Watson and Crick's DNA Model

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick built a physical model of the DNA molecule at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambri...

Biology Discovery Scientific 1953

9.5 Brilliant

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Codex Atlanticus (Leonardo da Vinci)

The Codex Atlanticus is a 12-volume collection of over 1,100 drawings and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, assembled in th...

Manuscript Renaissance Scientific 15TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

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Codex Sinaiticus

The Codex Sinaiticus is a late-antique vellum manuscript containing portions of the Greek Old and New Testaments. Discov...

Manuscript Biblical Christian Vellum

9.3 Excellent

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Codex Vaticanus

The Codex Vaticanus is a remarkably well-preserved late-antique Greek manuscript of the Bible. Dating from the fourth ce...

Manuscript Biblical Christian Vellum

9.3 Excellent

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Dresden Codex

The Dresden Codex is an ancient Maya manuscript written on bark paper. It’s considered the oldest known surviving Mayan...

Astronomy Manuscript Maya Codex

9.2 Excellent

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Codex Leicester (Leonardo da Vinci)

The Codex Leicester is a collection of scientific writings and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, compiled around 1508. It p...

Manuscript Renaissance Scientific 15TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Geniza Fragments (Cambridge)

Housed at Cambridge University Library, the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection contains over 190,000 fragments recovere...

Manuscript Medieval Cairo Jewish

9.2 Excellent

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Coronation Chair (King Edward's Chair, Westminster)

King Edward's Chair is a medieval wooden throne kept in Westminster Abbey in London. Commissioned by King Edward I in 12...

Wood Medieval British Royal

9.2 Excellent

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John Lennon's Imagine Piano (Steinway)

This Steinway Model Z upright piano was used by John Lennon at his Tittenhurst Park estate in Ascot, England, where he c...

20TH Century Piano British Musical

9.1 Excellent

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Marie Curie's Notebook

Marie Curie's research notebooks, which date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are historical scientific artifa...

Physics Scientific Radioactive 19TH 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Turing's Pilot ACE Computer

The Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was an early British stored-program computer completed in 1950 at the Nationa...

Historic Computing British 1950

9.1 Excellent

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Abraham Lincoln's Top Hat (Smithsonian)

This is a silk-plush stovepipe top hat that Abraham Lincoln wore on the night of his assassination at Ford's Theatre on...

American 19TH Century Historical Presidential

9.1 Excellent

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Nelson's Trafalgar Uniform

Nelson's Trafalgar Uniform is the military coat worn by British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalg...

Military 19TH Century British Naval

8.9 Great

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Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 (fragments)

These surviving brass fragments were built in 1832 by Joseph Clement under the direction of Charles Babbage, representin...

19TH Century Computing British Science Museum London

8.5 Great

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Turing's Notebook (Manchester)

Alan Turing's Manchester notebook is a historical manuscript containing notes from his work in computer science at the U...

Manuscript 20TH Century Computing British

8.2 Great