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{{Short description|African-American artist, art historian, curator, and professor}} | education = [[Temple University]], [[Philadelphia College of Art]] ...

{{short description|Relationship between mathematics and art}} [[File:Dürer Melancholia I.jpg|thumb|250px|Mathematics in art: [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s copper plate engraving ''[[Melencolia I]]'', 1514. Ma ...

...1st century AD, as evidenced by ''[[The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art]]'', while they appear in the works of [[Arabic mathematics]] by the 11th c [[File:Bianzhong.jpg|thumb|Each [[bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng|bronze bell of Marquis Yi of Zeng]] (433 BC) bears an inscription describing the s ...

=== State of the art in timekeeping === ...o Galilei|Galileo]] used a [[water clock]] to measure the time taken for a bronze ball to roll a known distance down an [[inclined plane]]; this clock was:<r ...

...M., Wimmer, S.J., Zukerman, A., and Demsky, A. (2008 (in press)). "An Iron Age I/IIA Archaic Alphabetic Inscription from Tell es-Safi/Gath: Paleography, D ...es," a kind of shirt, protecting the back as well as the breast, made of [[bronze]] scales arranged like those of a fish, probably similar to the [[corselet] ...

...rea Squitieri |title=Long-Distance Trade and Economy before and during the Age of Empires." Revolutionizing a World: From Small States to Universalism in ...ooks.google.com/books?id=hbyYCgAAQBAJ&dq=grappling+hooks+in+history+bronze+age&pg=PA182|page=182|date=2016|isbn=978-0199797455}}</ref> ...

* Bronze Age [[henge]] and barrow complexes at locations including the [[University Park * Bronze Age burials at locations including The Hamel, [[Radcliffe Infirmary]], [[Banbur ...

.../www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enrico-fermi-architect-of-the-nuclear-age-dies|archive-date=17 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=":18">{{Cite web|url=ht ...="Wells">Wells, Frederick V.; Billot, Marcel (1981). Perfumery Technology. Art, science, industry. Chichester: Horwood Books. pp. 25, 278. {{ISBN|0-85312- ...

...ct.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Scott|first1=David A.|title=Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Conservation|date=2002|url=https://books.google.com/ ...e book|last1=Bennison|first1=Amira K.|title=The great caliphs : the golden age of the 'Abbasid Empire|date=2009|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|locati ...

...red the more accurate practical charts of sailors, and vice versa, but the age of discovery, from the closing decade of the fifteenth century, stimulated ...red the more accurate practical charts of sailors, and vice versa, but the age of discovery, from the closing decades of the fifteenth century, brought to ...

...lassic texts on primitive and ancient trade are: Marshall Sahlins, ''Stone age economics''. London: Tavistock Publications, 1974; Karl Polanyi et al., ''T ...r work effort, time, storage and energy.<ref>[[Marshall Sahlins]], ''Stone age economics''. London: Tavistock Publications, 1974, p. 289.</ref> All the ti ...