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Hollow handled spades (Chinese: 布幣; pinyin: bùbì) are a link between weeding tools used for barter and stylised objects used as money. They are clearly too flimsy for use, but retain the hollow socket by which a genuine tool could be attached to a handle.
Hollow-handled spades (Chinese: 布幣; pinyin: bùbì) are a link between weeding tools used for barter and stylised objects used as money. Although flimsy, they retain the hollow socket where a handle would be attached for use as a genuine tool. This socket is rectangular in its cross-section and still retains the clay from the casting process.
The Fra Mauro map was made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The original world map was made by Fra Mauro and his assistant Andrea Bianco, a sailor-cartographer, under a commission by king Afonso V of Portugal.
Kept in the Topkapı Palace Museum, [25] the map is the remaining western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. [e] The surviving portion shows the Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Europe, Africa, and South America. [26] The map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing ...
Illustration of stepwise bronze casting by the lost-wax method. Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) [1] – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.
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In medieval T and O maps, Asia makes for half the world's landmass, with Africa and Europe accounting for a quarter each. With the High Middle Ages, Southwest and Central Asia receive better resolution in Muslim geography, and the 11th century map by Mahmud al-Kashgari is the first world map drawn from a Central Asian point of view.
It is widely accepted that the term Coele is a transcription of Aramaic ܟܠ kul ' all, the entire ', such that the term originally identified all of Syria. [1] [2] [3] The word "Coele", with κοῖλος (koĩlos), fem. κοίλη (koílē) literally meaning ' hollow ' in Ancient and Koine Greek, is thought to have come about via a folk-etymological reinterpretation referring to the "hollow ...