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Tag: history
PRIMUM NON NOCERE
Yes, it’s the ancient “first do no harm”. the Hippocratic Oath It isn’t explicitly in the Hippocratic Oath that physicians use to take, but it summarizes a very important part of it: do nothing that to your knowledge might harm the patient. No sensible person would dare argue such a statement, ever. But still… Let’s […]
Maps
Maps It’s a very ancient technique: most likely the first map was drawn with a stick in the dirt to show the next caveman where to find a decent shelter for himself and his family. Then in the course of time this technique evolved to true art: starting from a crude (and not necessarily accurate) […]
Extra
Extra No matter how many pidgeonholes you provide, there’s always something that falls outside – in Latin, ‘extra’. Here we piled up all the images that despite our strenuous efforts wouldn’t fit in any of the other categories without cheating badly. Thus if you’re after something specific this is hardly the right place, whereas if […]
People
People History is larded with shady characters that caused unspeakable suffering and countless deaths out of sheer personal ambition and thirst for power. Having to call them Your Majesty, mein Führer, Mr President or the like didn’t ever wash the blood off their hands and never will. Fortunately though next to them are recorded also […]
Typography & Typographical elements
Typography & Typographical elements There were books long before the art of printing came into being: sewing together a pile of scrolls is no big deal. But a book that needed years of painstaking work by a dedicated monk was a rarity, something only a fistful of major personalities could own and (maybe) read. The […]
Travel & Adventure
Travel & Adventure Man is a curious animal. The instinct that urges to sniff around the corner to spot in time a possible predator has pushed him far beyond the horizon, at great risk and costs, for the sheer pleasure of knowing what he would find there. Often in order to gather the necessary money […]
Transport
Transport For millennia on end man and goods have been moving around on foot or on horseback and wagons on land, and on sometimes sophisticated but still primitive wooden crafts on water. Difficult as it is to believe it today, even America was discovered and re-discovered relying only on the sailors’ skills and the whims […]
Technology
Technology Science provides fascinating answers (not to mention many myriads of new questions), but all too often they are theoretical answers. It takes more than a screwdriver and a bit of ingenuity to turn them into practical outcomes that can be applied to everyday life. Such a bridge between the scientist and the technician, between […]
