Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple [link], for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration. Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Science & Futurism
* "Secret Life of a Full-Time Cyborg; Steve Mann invented a precursor to Google Glass in the 1990s—which he now uses almost 24/7. But “the father of wearable computing” has an ominous warning about where technology is taking us next" (2017-06-01, narratively.com, via getpocket.com/explore/item/secret-life-of-a-full-time-cyborg) [archive.fo/9CQjH]
- image caption: Steve sits near his accolades and some of the artwork he made, using radio waves from smartphones to burn into the wood upon which they are mounted. This work, entitled “Burner Phone,” is an example of real augmented reality.
- image caption: Steve with the SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) that he invented in his childhood in the 1970s. Here it us used to visualize sound waves from a violin.
* "Have You Ever Heard of The Prometheus Project?" (2019-10-05, activistpost.com/2019/10/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-prometheus-project.html) [archive.fo/r87CH]:
How much longer will it be where we compare the daily news to “something out of dystopian science fiction” and instead admit that it’s already our reality?
The merger of human and machine is a dream long in the making, as well as the centralized management of behavior, and it’s clearly starting to bear fruit.
Melissa Dykes of Truthstream Media discusses a book called The Prometheus Project published in 1969 by physics professor Gerald Feinberg. His background is interesting in itself, but what he says about transhumanist technologies and “long-range goals” for humanity’s “universal consciousness” is something everyone needs to hear.
"Should the goals of the human race be set by a small elite group, or by as many people as wish to take part in the discussion." — Gerald Feinberg.
- video (youtube.com/watch?v=1EUJaS_NuAM) [archive.fo/kxLtu]
---
* "The sky’s the limit: Siberian scientists set to design Russia’s first FLYING CAR" (2019-10-05, rt.com/russia/470276-russia-flying-car-drone/) [archive.fo/fr8aE]
===*===*===
Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "Alien probes spying on Earth? Scientist warns of possible ‘lurkers’ in our solar system" (2019-10-02, rt.com/news/470021-alien-space-probes-earth/) [archive.is/n9hff]
---
* "Cosmic hide and seek: Can you find the huge black hole lurking in this Hubble photo?" (2019-10-01, rt.com/news/469988-black-hole-hiding-hubble/) [archive.is/1HZsW]
===*===*===
Ancient News
* "New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for the land" (2019-10-03, theconversation.com/new-research-turns-tasmanian-aboriginal-history-on-its-head-the-results-will-help-care-for-the-land-124285) [archive.is/TOoul]
---
* "Swiss Archaeologists Discover 5,500 Year Old Submerged Monument" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/submerged-mystery-0012661) [archive.is/vSGqL]
- image caption: Archaeologists have discovered a range of mysterious man-made stones submerged beneath the surface of Lake Constance. (Source: Thurgau Archaeology)
---
* "5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Megacity Unearthed in Israel" (2019-10-06, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/israel-megacity-0012682) [archive.fo/pPkiG]
---
* "Liangzhu Ancient City: Testament to 5,000-years of Chinese history" (2019-10-03, news.cgtn.com/news/2019-10-03/Liangzhu-Ancient-City-Testament-to-5-000-year-Chinese-history-KuebHzYtO0/index.html) [archive.is/pBFI2]
---
* "French Team Says Satellite Images Reveal Underwater City" (by Gary Vey, viewzone.com/cuba2.html) [archive.fo/Kfhq1]
* "What Happened to the Sunken City of Cuba?" (2014-07-22, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/what-happened-sunken-city-cuba-001883) [archive.fo/7T4m4]
- image caption: Reconstructed Image taken from the sonar scan of the sea floor off the coast of Cuba.
* "Why Not Look for A-Tlan-Tis in Mexico?" (by Gene D. Matlock, B.A, M.A., viewzone.com/atlantis2.html), pg. 1 [archive.fo/sM4u], pg. 2 [archive.fo/1eQ0R]
* "India's Conquest of the Americas" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/gene.india.html) [archive.fo/44wk8]
* "The Fabled Sunken Hindu Caribbean Island of Trikuta. Was It the Real Atlantis?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/lanka22.html) [archive.fo/QDJiO]
---
* "The Other Side of the Flood: Was Abraham of Indian Descent?" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/history/abraham-0012663) [archive.fo/P0aS3]
* "Who Was ABRAHAM?" (by Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A., viewzone.com/abraham.html), pg. 1 [archive.fo/bxSeA], pg. 2 [archive.fo/aXAQi], pg. 3 [archive.fo/ebvP7]
* "Is There A Connection Between Ancient Indian And Hebrew Language?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/matlock.html) [archive.fo/7RW21]
* "Did the Hindus Help Write the Bible and Give the Ancient Mexicans Their Religious Traditions?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/noah.story.html) [archive.fo/kB3qD]
* "Does latest dating of camel bones reveal inaccuracy in the Bible?" (2014-02-06, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/does-latest-dating-camel-bones-reveal-inaccuracy-bible-001310) [archive.fo/A6bEZ]
---
* "Decoded Inscription Reveals Pompeii was a City of Extremes" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/pompeii-life-0012662) [archive.fo/PFa2N]
---
* "A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Age; A great prince, an almost-forgotten ancient script, and whisperings of a forgery" (2017-10-09, atlasobscura.com/articles/inscription-deciphered-luwian-turkey-troy) [is.gd/F1cWJW]
- image caption: Copy of the Luwian hieroglyphic inscription about the king of Mira, thought to have been composed around 1180 B.C. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html#jCp
---
* "Achaemenid Tablets Returned to Iran from US; Almost two thousand pieces from the Achaemenid Empire are on display in Iran’s National Museum" (2019-10-02, telesurenglish.net/news/achaemenid-tablets-returned-iran-20191002-0028.html) [archive.fo/9k65f]
- image caption: Part of Achaemenid-era clay tablets are on display at Iran's National Museum in Tehran, Iran, 02 October 2019
---
* "Skeleton of Ancient Sports Fan Found Buried with Head-Shaped Jar" (2019-09-29, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-sportsman-0012650) [archive.fo/DMXO5]
---
* "The Ancient Greeks May Have Deliberately Built Temples on Fault Lines; Then again, they may just have an awful lot of both" (2017-09-12, atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-greeks-temples-earthquakes-fault-lines-sacred-sites) [is.gd/mkNIAF]
---
* "Antikythera Shipwreck and the Discovery of Ancient Tech That Shocked the World" (2019-10-03, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/antikythera-shipwreck-0012668) [archive.fo/r9rqJ]
* "The Antikythera mechanism; The "first computer" - an ancient miracle of technology" (updated 2019-04-10, dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/antikytera-mechanismus/index.html) [archive.fo/HC7kp]
* "Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism", figure 2 (journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103275.g002) [archive.fo/PYppX]:
Examples of data gathered in 2005 on the Antikythera Mechanism.
(A) Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) with specular enhancement [2]. (B) High-resolution Microfocus X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) [3].
* "Improved X-ray computed tomography reconstruction of the largest fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator" (2018-11-10, journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207430) [archive.fo/5CkAm]
- image caption: Fig 4. A magnified image of part of fragment A showing gear wheel b3, reconstructed using four methods to compensate for the missing projections.
Fig 4A does not correct for missing projections; Fig 4B erroneously assumes 27 missing projections as had been previously assumed; Fig 4C correctly takes 25 missing projections and replaces the missing projections with grey images with a value of 64,000; Fig 4D uses a weighed mean of the projections on either side of the missing projection.
- image caption: Fig 5. The 223-lunar month Saros Dial.
Red text is traced from data; blue reconstructed from context; green is uncertain.
Image from Freeth T. Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism. PLOS ONE. 2014 Jul 30;9(7):e103275. pmid:25075747
- image caption: Fig 6. Deciphering eclipse times for Glyphs 13 and 125 on the Saros Dial.
The X-ray CT images were reconstructed assuming 27 and 25 missing projections. Annotations shown in orange were traced from the data; those in blue (highlighted with a box) were inferred from the data or context and those in green (with a box) are of uncertain interpretation. The diagonal lines in some of the X-ray CT images are the result of dead pixels in the detector.
---
* "Surprise Discovery That Ancient Tin Ingots Found in Israel Came From England" (2019-09-16, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/tin-ingots-0012586) [archive.fo/FW7mL]
---
* "Ancient Earthworks of North America suggest pre-Columbian European contact" (2015-07-02, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/ancient-earthworks-north-america-suggest-pre-columbian-european-contact-020417) [archive.is/Qluap]
---
* "Huge Hoard of Viking Sword Parts Found in Estonia" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-swords-0012664) [archive.fo/q6Mp2]
- image caption: Some of the hilts bear Viking era designs.
---
* "Moundbuilder Myth - History and Death of a Legend" (2019-07-13, thoughtco.com/moundbuilder-myth-history-and-death-171536) [archive.fo/yhkIL]
---
* "The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries; We asked some of our favorite libraries: What’s the oldest item in your collection?" (2017-10-26, atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-library-books-manuscripts-cuneiform-tablets) [is.gd/1empBQ] [begin excerpt]
New York Academy of Medicine
Apicius, De re culinaria
Created: A.D. 830, Germany
Synopsis: The earliest surviving cookbook in the West, this Latin manuscript contains recipes that date all the way back to the fourth century B.C. These were recipes meant for average Roman households, although they included non-native spices that would have had to travel far to reach the Mediterranean. Some of the highlights, according to the library, are “roast lamb with coriander, deep-fried honey fritters, and cucumber with mint dressing.”
- image: De re culinaria.
[...]
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum
Created: No later than 1244, Italy
Synopsis: In the 10th century A.D., Ibn al-Jazzar, an Muslim physician, wrote a book titled Provisions for the Traveler and the Nourishment of the Settled, a compendium of the medical knowledge of the day, which focused on the interaction of humours and elements in the human body. A few decades later, Constantinus traveled from North Africa to a monastery in southern Italy, where he adapted and translated Ibn al-Jazzar’s work into Latin.
- image: Viaticum.
[...]
Chicago Botanic Garden
Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum
Created: 1483, Treviso, Italy
Synopsis: Back in the third century B.C., Theophrastus, one of the first botanists of the Western world, set out to catalogue the the plants of ancient Greece and created the first known classifications of plants in his part of the world. He covered a range of trees, shurbs, dwarf shrubs, and herbs and examined how they grew and were used in his own time.
- image: Historia Plantarum.
[...]
American Museum of Natural History
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
Created: 1495, Venice, Italy
Synopsis: Albertus Magnus spent his life studying and commenting on the works of Aristotle. Without his work, much less knowledge of the Greek philosopher would have made it to future generations of scholars. Albertus, who died in 1280 and was later canonized, wrote widely about the scientific and natural worlds. This volume collects his work on the animal kingdom.
- image: De animalibus, title and last pages, including colophon.
[...]
New York Public Library
Landévennec Gospels
Created: Circa ninth century, Brittany, France
Synopsis: Like the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library’s oldest written material is a collection of cuneiform tablets. Its oldest manuscript, however, is a ninth-century copy of the Gospels, made in a French monastery, but showing Celtic influence in its imagery.
- image: Landévennec Gospels illustrations, showing a Celtic influence.
[end excerpt]
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Science & Futurism
* "Secret Life of a Full-Time Cyborg; Steve Mann invented a precursor to Google Glass in the 1990s—which he now uses almost 24/7. But “the father of wearable computing” has an ominous warning about where technology is taking us next" (2017-06-01, narratively.com, via getpocket.com/explore/item/secret-life-of-a-full-time-cyborg) [archive.fo/9CQjH]
- image caption: Steve sits near his accolades and some of the artwork he made, using radio waves from smartphones to burn into the wood upon which they are mounted. This work, entitled “Burner Phone,” is an example of real augmented reality.
- image caption: Steve with the SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) that he invented in his childhood in the 1970s. Here it us used to visualize sound waves from a violin.
* "Have You Ever Heard of The Prometheus Project?" (2019-10-05, activistpost.com/2019/10/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-prometheus-project.html) [archive.fo/r87CH]:
How much longer will it be where we compare the daily news to “something out of dystopian science fiction” and instead admit that it’s already our reality?
The merger of human and machine is a dream long in the making, as well as the centralized management of behavior, and it’s clearly starting to bear fruit.
Melissa Dykes of Truthstream Media discusses a book called The Prometheus Project published in 1969 by physics professor Gerald Feinberg. His background is interesting in itself, but what he says about transhumanist technologies and “long-range goals” for humanity’s “universal consciousness” is something everyone needs to hear.
"Should the goals of the human race be set by a small elite group, or by as many people as wish to take part in the discussion." — Gerald Feinberg.
- video (youtube.com/watch?v=1EUJaS_NuAM) [archive.fo/kxLtu]
---
* "The sky’s the limit: Siberian scientists set to design Russia’s first FLYING CAR" (2019-10-05, rt.com/russia/470276-russia-flying-car-drone/) [archive.fo/fr8aE]
===*===*===
Space News
"NASA Administrator: Alien Life Is More Likely Than We Thought" (2019, futurism.com) [archive.is/d6n46]
* "Alien probes spying on Earth? Scientist warns of possible ‘lurkers’ in our solar system" (2019-10-02, rt.com/news/470021-alien-space-probes-earth/) [archive.is/n9hff]
---
* "Cosmic hide and seek: Can you find the huge black hole lurking in this Hubble photo?" (2019-10-01, rt.com/news/469988-black-hole-hiding-hubble/) [archive.is/1HZsW]
===*===*===
Ancient News
* "New research turns Tasmanian Aboriginal history on its head. The results will help care for the land" (2019-10-03, theconversation.com/new-research-turns-tasmanian-aboriginal-history-on-its-head-the-results-will-help-care-for-the-land-124285) [archive.is/TOoul]
---
* "Swiss Archaeologists Discover 5,500 Year Old Submerged Monument" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/submerged-mystery-0012661) [archive.is/vSGqL]
- image caption: Archaeologists have discovered a range of mysterious man-made stones submerged beneath the surface of Lake Constance. (Source: Thurgau Archaeology)
---
* "5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Megacity Unearthed in Israel" (2019-10-06, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/israel-megacity-0012682) [archive.fo/pPkiG]
---
* "Liangzhu Ancient City: Testament to 5,000-years of Chinese history" (2019-10-03, news.cgtn.com/news/2019-10-03/Liangzhu-Ancient-City-Testament-to-5-000-year-Chinese-history-KuebHzYtO0/index.html) [archive.is/pBFI2]
---
* "French Team Says Satellite Images Reveal Underwater City" (by Gary Vey, viewzone.com/cuba2.html) [archive.fo/Kfhq1]
* "What Happened to the Sunken City of Cuba?" (2014-07-22, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/what-happened-sunken-city-cuba-001883) [archive.fo/7T4m4]
- image caption: Reconstructed Image taken from the sonar scan of the sea floor off the coast of Cuba.
* "Why Not Look for A-Tlan-Tis in Mexico?" (by Gene D. Matlock, B.A, M.A., viewzone.com/atlantis2.html), pg. 1 [archive.fo/sM4u], pg. 2 [archive.fo/1eQ0R]
* "India's Conquest of the Americas" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/gene.india.html) [archive.fo/44wk8]
* "The Fabled Sunken Hindu Caribbean Island of Trikuta. Was It the Real Atlantis?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/lanka22.html) [archive.fo/QDJiO]
---
* "The Other Side of the Flood: Was Abraham of Indian Descent?" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/history/abraham-0012663) [archive.fo/P0aS3]
* "Who Was ABRAHAM?" (by Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A., viewzone.com/abraham.html), pg. 1 [archive.fo/bxSeA], pg. 2 [archive.fo/aXAQi], pg. 3 [archive.fo/ebvP7]
* "Is There A Connection Between Ancient Indian And Hebrew Language?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/matlock.html) [archive.fo/7RW21]
* "Did the Hindus Help Write the Bible and Give the Ancient Mexicans Their Religious Traditions?" (by Gene D. Matlock, viewzone.com/noah.story.html) [archive.fo/kB3qD]
* "Does latest dating of camel bones reveal inaccuracy in the Bible?" (2014-02-06, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/does-latest-dating-camel-bones-reveal-inaccuracy-bible-001310) [archive.fo/A6bEZ]
---
* "Decoded Inscription Reveals Pompeii was a City of Extremes" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/pompeii-life-0012662) [archive.fo/PFa2N]
---
* "A Centuries-Old Frieze, Newly Deciphered, Tells the Story of the End of the Bronze Age; A great prince, an almost-forgotten ancient script, and whisperings of a forgery" (2017-10-09, atlasobscura.com/articles/inscription-deciphered-luwian-turkey-troy) [is.gd/F1cWJW]
- image caption: Copy of the Luwian hieroglyphic inscription about the king of Mira, thought to have been composed around 1180 B.C. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html#jCp
---
* "Achaemenid Tablets Returned to Iran from US; Almost two thousand pieces from the Achaemenid Empire are on display in Iran’s National Museum" (2019-10-02, telesurenglish.net/news/achaemenid-tablets-returned-iran-20191002-0028.html) [archive.fo/9k65f]
- image caption: Part of Achaemenid-era clay tablets are on display at Iran's National Museum in Tehran, Iran, 02 October 2019
---
* "Skeleton of Ancient Sports Fan Found Buried with Head-Shaped Jar" (2019-09-29, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-sportsman-0012650) [archive.fo/DMXO5]
---
* "The Ancient Greeks May Have Deliberately Built Temples on Fault Lines; Then again, they may just have an awful lot of both" (2017-09-12, atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-greeks-temples-earthquakes-fault-lines-sacred-sites) [is.gd/mkNIAF]
---
* "Antikythera Shipwreck and the Discovery of Ancient Tech That Shocked the World" (2019-10-03, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/antikythera-shipwreck-0012668) [archive.fo/r9rqJ]
* "The Antikythera mechanism; The "first computer" - an ancient miracle of technology" (updated 2019-04-10, dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/antikytera-mechanismus/index.html) [archive.fo/HC7kp]
* "Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism", figure 2 (journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103275.g002) [archive.fo/PYppX]:
Examples of data gathered in 2005 on the Antikythera Mechanism.
(A) Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) with specular enhancement [2]. (B) High-resolution Microfocus X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) [3].
* "Improved X-ray computed tomography reconstruction of the largest fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator" (2018-11-10, journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207430) [archive.fo/5CkAm]
- image caption: Fig 4. A magnified image of part of fragment A showing gear wheel b3, reconstructed using four methods to compensate for the missing projections.
Fig 4A does not correct for missing projections; Fig 4B erroneously assumes 27 missing projections as had been previously assumed; Fig 4C correctly takes 25 missing projections and replaces the missing projections with grey images with a value of 64,000; Fig 4D uses a weighed mean of the projections on either side of the missing projection.
- image caption: Fig 5. The 223-lunar month Saros Dial.
Red text is traced from data; blue reconstructed from context; green is uncertain.
Image from Freeth T. Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism. PLOS ONE. 2014 Jul 30;9(7):e103275. pmid:25075747
- image caption: Fig 6. Deciphering eclipse times for Glyphs 13 and 125 on the Saros Dial.
The X-ray CT images were reconstructed assuming 27 and 25 missing projections. Annotations shown in orange were traced from the data; those in blue (highlighted with a box) were inferred from the data or context and those in green (with a box) are of uncertain interpretation. The diagonal lines in some of the X-ray CT images are the result of dead pixels in the detector.
---
* "Surprise Discovery That Ancient Tin Ingots Found in Israel Came From England" (2019-09-16, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/tin-ingots-0012586) [archive.fo/FW7mL]
---
* "Ancient Earthworks of North America suggest pre-Columbian European contact" (2015-07-02, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/ancient-earthworks-north-america-suggest-pre-columbian-european-contact-020417) [archive.is/Qluap]
---
* "Huge Hoard of Viking Sword Parts Found in Estonia" (2019-10-02, ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/viking-swords-0012664) [archive.fo/q6Mp2]
- image caption: Some of the hilts bear Viking era designs.
---
* "Moundbuilder Myth - History and Death of a Legend" (2019-07-13, thoughtco.com/moundbuilder-myth-history-and-death-171536) [archive.fo/yhkIL]
---
* "The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries; We asked some of our favorite libraries: What’s the oldest item in your collection?" (2017-10-26, atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-library-books-manuscripts-cuneiform-tablets) [is.gd/1empBQ] [begin excerpt]
New York Academy of Medicine
Apicius, De re culinaria
Created: A.D. 830, Germany
Synopsis: The earliest surviving cookbook in the West, this Latin manuscript contains recipes that date all the way back to the fourth century B.C. These were recipes meant for average Roman households, although they included non-native spices that would have had to travel far to reach the Mediterranean. Some of the highlights, according to the library, are “roast lamb with coriander, deep-fried honey fritters, and cucumber with mint dressing.”
- image: De re culinaria.
[...]The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum
Created: No later than 1244, Italy
Synopsis: In the 10th century A.D., Ibn al-Jazzar, an Muslim physician, wrote a book titled Provisions for the Traveler and the Nourishment of the Settled, a compendium of the medical knowledge of the day, which focused on the interaction of humours and elements in the human body. A few decades later, Constantinus traveled from North Africa to a monastery in southern Italy, where he adapted and translated Ibn al-Jazzar’s work into Latin.
- image: Viaticum.
[...]Chicago Botanic Garden
Theophrastus, Historia Plantarum
Created: 1483, Treviso, Italy
Synopsis: Back in the third century B.C., Theophrastus, one of the first botanists of the Western world, set out to catalogue the the plants of ancient Greece and created the first known classifications of plants in his part of the world. He covered a range of trees, shurbs, dwarf shrubs, and herbs and examined how they grew and were used in his own time.
- image: Historia Plantarum.
[...]American Museum of Natural History
Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
Created: 1495, Venice, Italy
Synopsis: Albertus Magnus spent his life studying and commenting on the works of Aristotle. Without his work, much less knowledge of the Greek philosopher would have made it to future generations of scholars. Albertus, who died in 1280 and was later canonized, wrote widely about the scientific and natural worlds. This volume collects his work on the animal kingdom.
- image: De animalibus, title and last pages, including colophon.
[...]New York Public Library
Landévennec Gospels
Created: Circa ninth century, Brittany, France
Synopsis: Like the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library’s oldest written material is a collection of cuneiform tablets. Its oldest manuscript, however, is a ninth-century copy of the Gospels, made in a French monastery, but showing Celtic influence in its imagery.
- image: Landévennec Gospels illustrations, showing a Celtic influence.
[end excerpt]
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* "How Do You Decode a Hapax? (Also, What’s a Hapax?) It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record" (2017-09-07, atlasobscura.com/articles/hapax-legomenon-hapaxes) [is.gd/e62IBJ]
---
* "Ancient Tree With Record of Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal in Its Rings Discovered" (2019-07-04, newsweek.com/ancient-tree-discovered-earths-magnetic-field-1447570) [archive.is/vkEgX]
- image caption: The kauri tree unearthed during the expansion of the Ngāwhā Generation geothermal power plant.
---
* "The Mysterious Tale of the Man from Taured – Evidence for Parallel Universes? Or an Embellishment?" (2016-04-28, ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/mysterious-tale-man-taured-evidence-parallel-universes-or-embellishment-005788) [archive.is/JnMnp]
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Curiata
* "They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone" (2016-05-05, ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/they-re-alive-megalithic-sites-are-more-just-stone-005827) [archive.is/zAJp8]
- image caption: Carnac menhir caption: One of the 80,000 menhirs in the Carnac region.
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* "Worse than Lovecraft: What if the Old Ones were real, but they’re all extinct?" (2019-10-04, freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/10/04/worse-than-lovecraft-what-if-the-old-ones-were-real-but-theyre-all-extinct/) [archive.fo/I3AX0]
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