Saturday, August 05, 2006
Powerful X-ray beams illuminate writings of Greek mathematician Archimedes, hidden for centuries under prayers. The palimpsest contains the only copies of treatises on flotation, gravity and mathematics.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
I was directed towards this web site by Edward Tufte’s Ask E.T.
S.Blair Hedges is the Professor of Biology at The Pennsylvania State University and he has created the Print Clock - a web page describing how to date prints and old books from previous centuries.
One of my reasons for following this link is that one of the examples that Professor Hedges uses is the Renaissance book, Bordone’s Isolario. This arouses my interest in islands of course and in particular the reminder that Books of islands (isolarii) were a popular literary form in Renaissance Italy. This author has already made reference to Cristoforo Buondelmonte, Incipt liber Insularum Arcipelagi here.
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Tech From an E-booker’s Viewpoint:
Anti-Spam Email Links - Web Site Design - Andrew Gregory’s Web Pages: A good way to obfuscate email addresses.
CSS Round Corners | Gran Yosler | A blog about Yosle, web development, and some other stuff: A good way to get rounded corners with NO images…
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