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Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas
The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...
The 'Codex Gigas,' an 800-year-old manuscript and the largest of the Middle Ages, has a history as outsized as its dimensions. The Codex Gigas at an exhibit in Klementinum, Czech National Library, in ...
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This medieval codex hides a secret in its wood
The Codex of Türi, a 15th-century Latin-German dictionary, has been studied from every angle. Its oak covers, long overlooked, have revealed surprising information through dendrochronology and ...
William Noel: 'It was an extraordinary adventure to read the thoughts of a guy who lived over 2,000 years ago. In the field of old books nothing gets more romantic than that' - Weidenfeld and Nicolson ...
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun and ...
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