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  • I like reading books and enjoy unravelling a fascinating technical puzzle together with experts from different disciplines. Customized themes are therefore certainly welcomed, provided the necessary lead time, sources and/or experts are available.

 

Evolution of mathematics

  • Why did quadric equations appear so soon? The first tentative steps towards differentials and integrals came quite quickly. Euclid dictated the school benches for a long time, until ... [in development]

 

Poetry and science: Latin/Greek & STEM

 

Mobile museum

  • Why not turn that unused room into an ancient study room?
  • In your library, allow the linear sentences to escape from their two-dimensional cocoon and to unfold themselves into their lifelike replicas in all geometric beauty.

Nocturne

  • The flaming wicks in our oil lamps dissolve the darkness from the night and in between a game of light and shadow the knowledge of the past awakens.

Before and after classical antiquity

  • Because scientific knowledge builds on the shoulders of its predecessors, each didactical story is interwoven with the technical knowledge from before and after classical antiquity.
  • Points of contact with more recent technology can be incorporated into the didactical story.

Mesopotamian clay tablets

The left clay tablet shows a mathematical problem, as well as the intermediate and final (wrong) solution. The other tablets depict tables which are to be consulted during the exercise.

Greek classical antiquity

This piece of obsidian was found in an ancient workshop on the island of Nisyros, Greece.

Late Bronze Age

Replica of a knife found in a grave in present-day Switzerland.

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (c. 1550 BC)

How did an Egyptian mathematics course look like? This replica of the Rhind papyrus shows what students were reading circa 3500 years ago.

Babylonian clay tablet (YBC 7289)

The diagonal displays an approximation of the square root of 2 in four sexagesimal figures, 1 24 51 10, which translates in decimal format to (1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603)= 1,41421296.

Balearic sling

This sling from the Balearic Islands is made according to an ancient tradition. Local esparto grass has been used as the material.

Viking period (circa 800–1050 AD)?

Did the Vikings use this kind of calcite crystals for navigation? Maybe ... but we don't have conclusive evidence. In any case, we can experiment with this Iceland spar or Icelandic crystal, and test whether the refraction of this crystal allows us to determine the position of the sun.

14th-15th century AD

The Navicula is an adjustable portable sundial incorporating geographic data.

16th century AD

Alberti invented a cryptographic device for polyalphabetic encryption. This reproduction was of a type used by the 'Dukes of Medici'.

17th century AD

Arabic astrolabe made by Diya’ al-Din Muhammad in Lahore, Pakistan.