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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) Produced for about 5000 years, these seals were made by engraving, in reverse, on a small stone using metal tools. The design becomes apparent only after being rolled …
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Printing Press (Artifact Photo) This Coptic manuscript, bound in wood boards dates from the 13th century and is hand-lettered and painted on parchment. A Coptic stitch runs through the folded signatu…
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Printing Press - Document 3C Excerpt Woodcut illustration in medical textbook. De Humani Corporis Fabrica... Basel, 1543. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine. Andreas Vesalius [anatomist] (1514-…
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Printing Press - Document 3A Excerpt Early Printed Manuscript Visit Source Download PDF…
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Printing Press - Document 1E Excerpt Scribe’s hand-crafted illumination added to pages in printed bible. Download PDF…
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Printing Press - Document 3E Excerpt Image from De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Illustration included within printed medical textbook. Visit Source Download PDF…
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The open sea is a never-ending desert of water – the same in all directions. How did ancient mariners cross the ocean without GPS? The principles behind “modern” innovations used by our GPS-enab…
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The Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, the 2016 Presidential Campaign, are all recent events, which were driven by social media. Though Twitter was only recently invented, the movement of technology-dri…
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