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TIME DRILLS: DEEP TIME RAPID TIME EXERCISES.

The article presents intellectual exercises for readers that use an apparatus called a volvelle, which is an old apparatus used extensively from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period as a type of book-based calculating instrument. The exercises, which the authors call modest qualitative exercises, w...

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Published in:Art Journal Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 44 - 62
Main Author: Spurse
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Winter2009
Subjects:
Spacetime
Spatial behavior
Fourth dimension
Calculators
Middle Ages
Baroque civilization
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents intellectual exercises for readers that use an apparatus called a volvelle, which is an old apparatus used extensively from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period as a type of book-based calculating instrument. The exercises, which the authors call modest qualitative exercises, were designed so that readers could attempt to actively experiment their way into collectively discovering new manners of engaging with new logics of space- times that have been developed by intellectuals over the course of time.