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The Dance of Death in the late-medieval manuscript. Unsurprisingly, this was a popular motif in art and literature following the Black Death British Library

The suffering of Job in a fifteenth-century manuscript. As a result of the Black Death, Job was a figure that late medieval people could identify with British Library

Carrying and burying victims of the Black Death Wellcome Library, London en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Library

A sixteenth-century Petrarchan woodcut shows the Black Death as killing both humans and animals of many kinds as monks pray. The testimony to common impact of the Black Death on both animals and humans is biologically significant (Wellcom Library, London)

Intercessionary religious procession of Pope Gregory the Great in 590, as depicted in a fourteenth-century manuscript, during the Black Death. this was the mot immediate and common response to pandemic disease until recently. Wellcom Library London

A mass grave for victims of the Black Death is located at Charterhouse Square, London. The buildings are postmedieval. in the fourteenth century this was the site of a Carthusian monastery, and victims of the Black Death were buried in the mass grave, which is now underneath the grass Anthony J. Gross en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charterhouse_School

Bad News! The dead addressing the living, in the fifteenth Century manuscript. Bodleian Library, Oxford, U>K>

Astronomers looking in the heavens. Fourteenth-century knowledge of astronomy was considerable. it was used by French astronomers to determine the astrological cause of the Black Death. Bibliothequede l'Arsenal

A 1492 depiction of the city of Strasbourg, where massacre of Jews suspected to be responsible for the Black Death took place. British Library"

THE SPREAD OF THE BLACK DEATH ACROSS EUROPE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY Graham Twigg, The Black Death,

Painting from a Late Classic Mayan vase, showing a ruler about to partake of a foaming cacao beverage. Probably tamales covered with a cacao-mole sauce are heaped inside a serv ing bowl under the ruler’s platform Photograph K6418 @ Justin Kerr

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. . According to legend, Galileo’s new passion began with a chandelier. He observed the massive lamp in the cathedral swinging in the breeze. How many thousand millions -- of visions had seen this before and never given it a second thought? For some reason Galileo decided to time the motion (using his own pulse as a clock). What he discovered was that, no matter how long or short the arc, the natural pendulum took the same time to complete it. The story may be apocryphal but it points us to two fundamentals of Galileo’s mature thinking: the process began with observation and it could be understood with the aid of mathematics. ~ Page 132

sciencing.com/history-pendulum-4965313.html A pendulum is an object or weight suspended from a pivot point. When a pendulum is set in motion, gravity causes a restoring force that will accelerate it toward the center point, resulting in a back and forth swinging motion. The word "pendulum" is new Latin, derived from the Latin "pendulus," which means "hanging." Pendulums were used in many historic scientific applications. Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens built the first pendulum clock in 1656, increasing timekeeping accuracy from 15 minutes to 15 seconds per day n 1818, Henry Kater devised the reversible Kater's pendulum to measure gravity, and it became the standard measurement for gravitational acceleration over the next century.

A modern mashing installation in Burkina Faso whose construction is remarkably similar to the facilities of Predynastic Egypt five thousand years earlier. Photograph courtesy Michel Voltz, Universite de Ougadougou, Burkina Faso

The tumulus burial of a Celtic prince at Hochdorf, Germany, ca 525 B.C., is uncannily reminiscent of the Midas Tumuls royal burial at Gordion, Turkey, of two centuries earlier. The burial chamber is enclosed in a double wall of logs, and a single male laid out in his finery, accompanied by a massive “claudron” and vessels for drinking and eating at a final funerary feast. Instead of “phrygian grog,” the 500 liter claudron had originally been filled with a beverage dominated by honey mead. Courtesy of J. Biel and Dr. Simone Stork / Keltenmuseum. Hochdorf.