The finest castle in Europe, the Castel del Monte, should in no way be omitted from this quest for Frederican castles in the Bari provincial area. 18 Km. from Andria on a hill 540 m. high and overlooking a vast expanse, it is famous for its octagonal structure, Each of its sides measures 16.50 m; its geometric harmony depends on the fact that there are eight 25 - metre Octagonal towers.
Museionline results from a partnership between Microsoft and Adnkronos Cultura and provides updated information concerning over 3,500 museums. The site aims at enhancing and promoting the Italian cultural heritage worldwide. Besides detailed service information on each museum, Adnkronos Cultura provides information on cultural programmes, exhibitions, and the activities carried out by Italian museums.
This site is a index and directory of museums in Italy. The site gives the address and phone number of the museums, a description of the museum's collections, and information regarding features of the museums such as guided tours, handicap access, and the presence of libraries/archives. the site also highlights special exhibits and news, and it is searchable geographicly, or by subject matter. The site would be helpful for researchers and person trying to find the locations of collections or plan a visit in person.
R.P. Greg in his catalogue (1860) lists a stone fall but give no details.
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This is a large set of links to sites pertaining to culture, astronomy and cosmology. The site give no information of its own, and it does not seem to be maintained as several of the links are broken, but the sites that are referenced by this directory seem to be useful.
Humans have been fascinated by the Moon for thousands of years, explaining it both as a deity and a physical world, recognizing its monthly re-occurrences, speculating on the origins of its surface features, and ultimately visiting it. Exploring the Moon provides knowledge about the Moon and its history of exploration.
This page provides access to my collection of some 1100 images of archaeological and archaeoastronomical interest.
The Sumerians and ancient greeks were expert astronomers. I have not got much data on Sumerian astronomers, but suffice to say that they gave us the degree as a unit of angular measurement as they liked a sexagesimal system and 360 was almost the same as the number of days in a year. The Greeks came later but on quite a few of them I can find enough data to help me fill this page. Among them we find the following people:
The desire to explore the unknown has been a driving force in human history since the dawn of time. From the earliestdocumented accounts, ancient civilizations have explored the earth by sea. Early adventurers were motivated by religious beliefs, the desire forconquest, the need to establish trade routes, and hunger for gold. Modern history books begin the age of exploration with the fourteenth century, but there is evidence that exploration between Europe and Asia began much earlier. Travel between Greece and India, for instance, was common in Alexander the Great's time because his vast empire included territories of both countries. The Han Dynasty of China and the Roman Empire, likewise, had regular trade relations and even exchanged a few diplomats.
This huge database provides access to every page of each of the 125,000 books published in the British Isles and abroad for the British market from 1475-1700. In all it covers more than 2.5 million pages and represents a complete corpus of published material in every subject and in every early modern language. Searching is highly sophisticated and retrived items can be dowloaded and/or printed. Access at present is via servers in Ann Arbor Michigan, but access will be from the UK some tine in 2003
Records of a committee formed by Cudahy optometrist Dr. Edward J. Tomasik to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of astronomer and scientist Mikolaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) in 1473. The Milwaukee-based organization sponsored several activities during 1973; among them were a banquet, an exhibit of Copernicus artifacts at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and publication of a monograph. Included in the collection are correspondence, financial and other records of the committee; papers regarding arrangements for the banquet and exhibit, such as correspondence, minutes of meetings, programs, speeches, and photographs; and printed reference material and clippings. Although the anniversary year was 1973, there is a small amount of material pre- and post-dating 1973, with fragmentary tax and financial records dating to 1978.
