Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This seminal works of musicology in two volumes … [Read more...]
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]
Comparing Urbanization
Berkeley's Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]
Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)
This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]
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