Open CultureNowOpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimensopenculture.com - OCFrom The Florida Museum of Natural History comes the openVertebrate project, a new initiative to “provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models …
Open Culture23 hours agoAn Architectural Tour of Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s Audacious Cathedral That’s Been Under Construction for 142 Yearsopenculture.com - Colin MarshallIn less than a year and a half, the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death will be here. Faced with this fact, especially dedicated enthusiasts of Catalan …
Open Culture1 day agoAn Animated Introduction to the Rosetta Stone, and How It Unlocked Our Understanding of Egyptian Hieroglyphsopenculture.com - OCIn 1799, Napoleon’s army encountered a curious artifact in Egypt, a black stone that featured writing in three different languages: Egyptian …
Open Culture4 days agoAn Introduction to the Astrolabe, the Medieval Smartphoneopenculture.com - Colin MarshallAsked to imagine the character of everyday life in the Middle Ages, a young student in the twenty-twenties might well reply, before getting around to …
Open Culture4 days agoThe Book of Colour Concepts: A New 800-Page Celebration of Color Theory, Including Works by Newton, Goethe, and Hilma af Klintopenculture.com - Colin MarshallThe Book of Colour Concepts will soon be published by Taschen in a multilingual edition, containing text in English, French, German, and Spanish. …
Open Culture5 days agoThe Founder of the Red Cross Creates a Diagram of the Apocalypse (1887)openculture.com - OCHistory remembers Henry Dunant (1828–1910) for two things–being the co-founder of the Red Cross movement and winning the first Nobel Peace Prize in …