EditorialScale for Navigation, Wooden bowl and two documents. The scale is a flat wooden slat with a number of scale divisions on one side and a number of tables and two noniuses on the other. This scale was intended to replace the regular regional tables for s...
EditorialOttoman Empire. Greece, Thessaloniki. Arrival of the French and German inspectors entrusted with solving the murder of the consuls in Thessaloniki on May 1876. Mr. Robert, from the French embassy in Constantinople, and Mr. Gillet, German consul, were l...
EditorialVanga damii, Print, The Vangidae family (from vanga, Malagasy for the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris) comprises a group of often shrike-like medium-sized birds distributed from Asia to Africa, including the vangas of Madagascar to which the fami...
EditorialRhind Mathematical Papyrus. A number of documents have survived that allow us insight into the ancient Egyptians' approach to mathematics. This papyrus is the most extensive. It is not a theoretical treatise, but a list of practical problems encountere...
EditorialThree stoneware pots by Johann Friedrich Boettger. Before solving the secret of Chinese porcelain manufacture, Boettger produced an imitation of the Chinese I-hsing stoneware, often with a curious mixture of Chinese and European elements. 1710-1719.
EditorialSolving Irish trouble at the front'. 'In the attack on Wytschaete ridge, where Major Willie Redmond fell, Nationalists and Ulstermen fought side by side ...' A newspaper report of Irish solders during the first world war. Daily Sketch. London, 1917. S...
EditorialTwo planets. An Original Theory or new hypothesis of the Univer. H. Chapelle: London, 1750. Diagram showing two planets. Image taken from An Original Theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, founded upon the Laws of Nature, and solving by mathematica...
EditorialRhind Mathematical Papyrus. A number of documents have survived that allow us insight into the ancient Egyptians' approach to mathematics. This papyrus is the most extensive. It is not a theoretical treatise, but a list of practical problems encountere...
EditorialThree stoneware pots by Johann Friedrich Boettger. Before solving the secret of Chinese porcelain manufacture, Boettger produced an imitation of the Chinese I-hsing stoneware, often with a curious mixture of Chinese and European elements. 1710-1719.