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Tom, from the Museum’s Young Producers group, talks about astrolabes and the craftsman Abd al A’imma.   ** It is easy to forget the past. This is perhaps most true of technology. We have no reason to think about it, but every day we do something utterly radical. We reach for a smartphone, and we’ve harnessed ... [Read more...]

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