π How This 1000-Year-Old Astrolabe Captured a Moment of Cultural Exchange
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Hey there! Welcome to your latest dose of the weird and the ancient, featuring my all-time favourite topics: old navigational tools and delicious snake steaks. Cross-Cultural Clockwork While browsing through museum photographs online, historian Federica Gigante of the University of Cambridge unexpectedly discovered an 11th-century astrolabe at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona.
π How This 1000-Year-Old Astrolabe Captured a Moment of Cultural Exchange
π How This 1000-Year-Old Astrolabe Capturedβ¦
π How This 1000-Year-Old Astrolabe Captured a Moment of Cultural Exchange
Hey there! Welcome to your latest dose of the weird and the ancient, featuring my all-time favourite topics: old navigational tools and delicious snake steaks. Cross-Cultural Clockwork While browsing through museum photographs online, historian Federica Gigante of the University of Cambridge unexpectedly discovered an 11th-century astrolabe at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona.