This 600-year-old painting is one of the most mysterious in history.
That mirror at the back is just 3 inches wide — yet it reflects the entire room in immense detail.
Look closer at it and you'll realize nothing is as it seems… (thread) 🧵
A selection of #Roman glass vessels excavated from sites on the island of Malta; many of then would have been used to hold perfume or scented oil. They're quite simple in design, but still very striking, nearly 2000 years after they were originally made #Archaeology#AncientGlass
Work of art donated to the Scuola Grande della Carità in 1463 by Cardinal Bessarion. It has four chambers made of rock crystal containing relics of the True Cross and Christ's robe, set in a frame with enamels depicting scenes of the Passion. The central panel is a movable grid.
An ancient Clay tablet found in Uruk (Warka) southern Iraq, inscribed with Cuneiform script and 3 geometric circles containing astronomical calculations, dated to the ancient Babylonian period (2004-1595 BC) Iraqi museum, Babylonian Gallery
I‘m having a very hard time dealing with lockdown. In an effort to cheer myself (and you?) up, I‘m reviving my series on objects from the museums of Kassel: today a model for a system of pulleys based on an illustration in Jacob s’ Gravesendes 1720 ‚Physices Elementa Mathematica‘
26 Feb 1616: Cardinal Robert Bellarmine met with Galileo, at the request of the Pope, to inform him of the judgement of the eleven Qualifiers concerning the heliocentric theory
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17th cent. units of weight and measure in an alchemist's book of recipes for making glass. https://t.co/VJDpQhaJcj
Pic: "The Proclamation regarding Weights and Measures A.D. 1556" by Ford Madox Brown, Wikimedia.
#histSTM#alchemy#glass#earlymodern
How many "dita" are in a "fiasco" anyway? The arcane world of alchemical weights and measures in early modern glassmaking. https://t.co/VJDpQhaJcj
Pic: Piazza Santa Trìnita, Florence, the column of justice,1581 Tadda. Getty Images
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