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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
10 March 2016

Ballista, Catapult, Trebuchet...

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...Onager, Mangonel, Springald, Polybolos—all words for devices that propelled heavy objects toward an enemy; not to mention Cheiroballista...
27 October 2014

A Sultan's Observatory

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The Ulugh Beg Observatory Museum, built in 1970 Ulugh Beg is the more familiar name of Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh (22 March 1...
11 September 2014

Knitting, Part 1

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Naalbinding technique [ link ] Technically, today's post is not about knitting, but about an earlier technique with a similar resul...
05 September 2014

The Larder

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In the Book of Proverbs, we find "Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he r...
29 July 2014

The Abbasid Caliphate

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The Abbasid Caliphate has only been mentioned so far as a target of the Assassins , but deserves more attention. Descended from Muhammad...
31 January 2014

A New Plough

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A diagram of the heavy plough with mouldboard One of the tools that most shaped European culture and improved life in the Middle Ages wa...
22 January 2014

Assembly Line

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Detail of the Venetian Arsenal from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum [1572] When we think of Venice and boats, we think of gondolas being...
19 September 2013

Button, Button

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Bronze-Iron Age buttons as ornament. [ source ] Although evidence of buttons exists as far back as the classical era, it appears that th...