Cern, the international group of scientists uncovering some of the oldest secrets of the universe through the vast ...

Recently discovered, the earliest dated English scientific instrument is going under the hammer at Christie's auction house in London on Wednesday. The palm-sized copper-alloy "horary quadrant," which ...

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One side of the device was used to tell the date of Easter Sunday. Christie's Images LTD. 2023 Billed as the “earliest dated English scientific instrument,” a 700-year-old medieval device used to tell ...

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Ian Lightcap had a problem. The core facility director at the University of Notre Dame had a lot of aging equipment on his hands and a plan to upgrade it—but no plan for what to do with the old ...