#BookHistory folk, you know the #BookWheel now be prepared for the #BookCube.
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The Renaissance Book Wheel let scholars read multiple open books at once - in the 1500s.
Multitasking, but make it wood and genius.
#ReaderLife #AgostinoRamelli #BookWheel #TheLolgic #italy #bookstagram #BookSky
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Figure CLXXXVIII in Le diverse et artificiose machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, an illustration of a bookwheel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookwheel#/media/File:Le_diverse_et_artificiose_machine_del_Capitano_Agostino_Ramelli_Figure_CLXXXVIII.jpg
16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time
By Regina Sienra
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More information:
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The #Bookwheel, invented in 1588 by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli, was a heavy, 600-pound wooden rotating bookcase that let scholars easily use up to eight open books at once. It had a clever gear system to keep the books upright as the wheel turned by hand
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I really need a 3rd hand while hanging the weights for the #bookwheel. I have to do it with the shelves on the wheel, and bc it’s a wheel...it moves when I don’t want it to move! I got frustrated and then made mac & cheese with ground chorizo because dairy and chorizo solves all
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#bookwheel update: The wingnuts hit the side of the PVC straps so I can’t tighten them when they’re in the right way around. Therefore in this video they’re the wrong way round just so that the shelves are attached. I might try adding the weights this afternoon!
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From Monday to today, the #bookwheel shelves have gone from an 8ft board to being cut, assembled, stained, and finished with polyurethane!
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