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A large reference book concerning astronomy and the locations of planets in the sky.
This extraordinary publication, the work of the printer, mathematician and cosmographer, Peter Apian, is predominantly an instrument in the form of a book. By realising the Ptolemaic planetary theory in moveable paper volvelles, with small circles…
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Series of proofs of geometric theorems and postulates, with colorful diagrams meant to better instruct the reader.
An article from the Smithsonian about the American Barbecue
translated version of Al Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
book by Hayden White on metahistory
Castro at the end of the Cuban Revolution