13-16c revolutions in visualization * musical time notation * spectacles * hourglass & mech clock * 3D->2D projections (maps, perspective drawing & painting) http://www.stolaf.edu/other/ql/crosby.html … inspired by unique experience with glass containers, windows & mirrors? http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/500284.html …
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Nick Szabo 🔑 @NickSzabo4#BigHistoryInATweet Chinese invented compass & cannon, drank tea in porcelain, but Italians drank wine from glass, giving hourglass, barometer, science. Europeans used hourglass + compass + cannon to sail world, knocked off porcelain. Science + cheap knockoffs = modern industry.1 reply 2 retweets 17 likesShow this thread -
The glass-encased compass, hourglass, portolani maps, and Ptolemaic maps (projecting 3D->2D), with latitude & longitude grids), along with daring curiosity to learn new winds in the Atlantic, gave us the exploration explosion: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-reckoning-and-exploration-explosion.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-very-underrated-invention.html …
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Twitter should have a parser that catches that, except when the unmatched paren is in a smily :-)
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