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In another study, experimenters had people rate the photographs of classmates in their high school yearbooks for how much they liked them and how attractive they felt that they were. Strangers of the same age also ranked the photographs for attractiveness. If liking had been irrelevant, the rating by classmates and the ratings by the strangers should have matched – but they didn’t the classmates’ attractiveness rating were swayed by how much they liked each person, further evidence that there is more to being good looking than looking good.
Even when you rate the faces of strangers, looks aren’t everything. One study found that a main factor in attractiveness has nothing to do with averageness, symmetry, sexual dimorphism or anything like that – it’s whether the person is smiling.~ Page 70
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The Praise of Folly
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Page 175
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The book nobody read
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Fig, 56 Copernicus, ‘De Revolutionibus’. On the title-page the owner, Willebrord Snell, affirms his support for Copernicus’s views and has disapproved of the cautious preface inserted by Andreas Oslander (without the author’s knowledge0, to the extent that Copernicus’s radical hypotheses ‘need not be true not even probable.’
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Colonel Griffith
Figure 23
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The manuscript newsletter was a commercial service offered to those who needed regular access to up the date news. the digest of events from 1593 comes from the famous Fugger Newsletter in Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_German_journalism
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Fig. 14
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Erasmus's response to Luther's 'Bondage of Will' was prepared in furious haste for the Frankfurt fair. As brutally functional title-page shows, it needed little further advertisement than the names of the protagonists.
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Humanist script: neat and clear, and the ancestor of the "Roman" type which modern books are printed. From a manuscript of Livy, C.1450
Figure 6
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This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop
* = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.
Akapana
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Idealized reconstruction of Akapana pyramid, as it would have been viewed from the north-east. (Drawing courtesy of Javier Escalante, INAR, La Paz, Bolivia)
interactive.archaeology.org/tiwanaku/project/akapana1.html
Akapana ~ The Sacred Mountain
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Map of the Akapana Pyramid according to Ponansky, (1945, Vol. I. Plate VIII)
interactive.archaeology.org/tiwanaku/project/akapana1.html
