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Croissants and Communication at the Catalan Congress
I have just returned from the XII Trobada (twelfth congress) of the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT –...

Seb Falk
Nov 20, 20124 min read


Medieval Craftsmanship, Part 3
[Drumroll] Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now demonstrate the use of a medieval planetary equatorium! In the first two posts in this...

Seb Falk
Nov 12, 20124 min read


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...

Seb Falk
Nov 6, 20124 min read


Igniting interest in science
Great day out in Nottingham yesterday. It's always fun to be a shameless tourist but the highlight was not one of the usual sights...

Seb Falk
Oct 28, 20122 min read


A Spanish "Encyglobedia"
Just published a new article on the Whipple Museum‘s “Explore Collections” site. Here it is: https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore...

Seb Falk
Oct 22, 20121 min read


How I found King Arthur’s Round Table
I’ve just started a research project focusing on a medieval manuscript, The Equatorie of the Planetis. This manuscript describes the...

Seb Falk
Oct 21, 20123 min read


My weekend as a medieval craftsman
With a free weekend, and fine autumn weather forecast, it seemed a good time to try making my own planetary equatorium. I’m studying a...

Seb Falk
Oct 15, 20123 min read
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