I’ve got three articles in draft form at the moment because once I start on a subject I tend to get distracted with associated subjects. It’s a danger of writing about something you like for an audience generally less familiar with it. So, today I have something simple: Gunpowder isContinue Reading
I so wish I had this when I was teaching modern western civ this semester. That course covers roughly the 16th through 20th centuries. It’s only half the time frame of the map, but my other class starts at the beginning of time and runs up to the 16th century. Continue Reading
These Astronomical Clocks Were a Wonder of the Medieval World. I have a wee bit of an issue with an article that talks about these devices being around for over 1000 years and then not giving an example older than the 14th century, but the pictures are nevertheless marvelous andContinue Reading