
Medieval Craftsmanship, Part 2
In my first post I described how I began making an equatorium according to the instructions in the fourteenth-century manuscript I’m researching. Since writing that post, I discovered a full-size replica made in the 1950s (you can read about that here). Needless to say, that replica is far more attractive and probably more accurate than anything I can make at home with my saw and pencil, but I never said beauty or accuracy were priorities of mine. So I went ahead with my o