Re: VMS -- Interesting Ancient Texts

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Astrolabes seem to have been popular instruments for navigators of the past.

http://www.puzzlering.net/astrolabe.html
http://www.astrolabes.org/fusoris.htm
http://www.astrolabes.org/HISTORY.HTM
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv03.html

A fun place to navigate around:
(click and drag to rotate around room and up and down; click on object to
zoom)
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/vr/es4vr.html

Regards,
Dana

Jorge Stolfi wrote:

>     > Here is a somewhat interesting exhibition from Cornell with various
>     > samples of ancient texts.
>     >
>     > http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/default.html
>
> I found this one interesting:
>
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/images/E3856_0055.jpg
>
> Perhaps some of the VMS diagrams are remains of such wheels, or
> attempts to reproduce them? (I believe they had been in use for a long
> time --- at least since the time of Ramón Llull.)
>
> All the best,
>
> --stolfi
>
> PS: I also found it amusing that the only broken link in that
> exhibit is in the censorship section. A pedagogical example
> of censorship in action? 8-)
>
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/paper10.html
> http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/strike.html