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The barbican at Mickelgate was pulled down in the 1800s but I made a rough approximation from other sources. #medievalyork #blender3d Similar:Little Women (Thurs-Sun)PersonalI had already created the little utility craft on the lower left, but this weekend I expan…PersonalMore glorious #steampunk control panels, created for no practical purpose. #blender3d #ble…AestheticsSold out opening night of…
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As those familiar with the liberal arts know, in antiquity there were seven such arts. Three formed the trivium of the humanities: rhetoric, grammar, and logic. And four formed the quadrivium of the sciences: music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. The assertion was this was the knowledge one required to participate as a citizen, as a…
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