How the Chinese and the Greeks viewed (pretty much) the same sky.
It’s pretty remarkable how differently two cultures can connect the same dots, don’t you think?
(maps via radical cartography)
Source: radicalcartography.net
A fourth century Chinese poem, written as an array of 841 characters, whose four seven-character lines can be read forwards, backwards, up, down, or diagonally. There’s 2,848 possible poems there.
(via Futility Closet)
Source: futilitycloset.com
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