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Travels with Ptolemy!

1540 hand-colored Cosmography with a side order of (putative) cannibalism.
One of my favorite woodcuts in

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2020-11-18

Answer: it typically took 6 years for a scribe to produce a Bible.

Despite an Eastern tradition of movable type beginning ca. 1000, Western book printing is thought to begin w/ Gutenberg.

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2020-09-25

Polishing armor helped deflect blows from opponents and even bullets. In the Renaissance, new technology made armor-polishing more efficient than it had been in the past (when folks had to do it all manually).

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2020-09-19

In February, Fido waits for his master to stop being distracted by his toys, and take him out for a walk . . . The Invention of the Magnet (Compass)

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2020-09-09

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2020-09-02