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Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world.

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Vatican goes wireless

Medieval sea chart was in line with current thinking

“The 16th-century Carta Marina, complete with sea monsters, gives an accurate location for dangerous eddies.

Roger Highfield reports A satellite image of the north-east Atlantic has revealed that medieval cartographers knew much more about ocean currents than was thought…”