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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Renaissance history"
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Renaissance fun
Steadman, Philip

Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly…

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12
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9781787359154
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792.02509031 REN
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Medieval Hackers
E. KathleenKennedy

Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms w…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780692352465
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ScholarLed
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