https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks en-us A database of drawings and graphics of mechanical devices from Renaissance and late medieval sources. http://dmd.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/home Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:33:51 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=17832 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=17832 Al-Jazari's book describes in detail fifty devices, which are grouped into six categories: ten water and candle clocks; ten vessels and figures suited for drinking sessions; ten pitchers and basins for phlebotomy and washing before prayers; ten fountains that change their shape alternately, and machines for the perpetual flute; five water raising machines; and five miscellaneous devices. This article discusses the history of water clocks in general, and those addressed in Al-Jazari's writing in particular. http://www.history-science-technology.com/Articles/articles%206.htm Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:22:21 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=15234 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=15234 A series of engravings that bring to us the very clear representation of the crafts and technology of his time, and the relative importance which these discoveries and inventions had in the mind of a well-informed layman of the 16th century. New Discoveries includes illustrations of: The Lodestone, The Magnet; The Astrolabe; America; Gunpowder; Printing Books; Iron Clocks; Guaiacum (a New World remedy for syphilis); Distillation; Silk, or the Silkworm; Stirrups, or Foot Rests; the Watermill; the Winged Mill (windmills); Olive Oil; Sugar; Oil Colors (oil-painting); Spectacles (eyeglasses); Longitudes of the Earth Found from the Deviation of the Magnet from the Pole; Polishing Armor; Engraving on Copper; and the travels & discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan. http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=390_S89N Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:50:23 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=13780 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=13780 The Museum, part of the University of Bologna's Department of Astronomy, houses a collection of astrolabes, gnomons & sundials, clocks, astronomical quadrants, telescopes, armillary spheres, globes, maps, and other mathematical, meteorologic, topographic and nautical instruments. http://www.bo.astro.it/dip/Museum/english/index_1.html Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:36 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=13320 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=13320 On the early history of the clockmakers and their trade. http://www.france-pittoresque.com/metiers/41.htm Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:43:04 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=10094 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=10094