On November 10, 1202, the men of the Fourth Crusade stood aboard their ships and gazed up at the walls of Zara, a port on the Adriatic coast in what is now Croatia. Geoffrey de Villehardouin, a French knight who sailed with the expedition,…
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On August 25, 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo debuted something to Venetian merchants that would make him both a legend and a heretic–his telescope. The Guardian writes, “A refinement of models first devised in the Netherlands, Galileo’s slim, brown stick was puny…
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