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The works of William Morris pulsate with energy, passion and inventiveness. His appeal, still strong today through the medium of his designs for wallpapers and fabrics, derives from the breadth of his achievements, a concern for his fellow man and the powerfully sympathetic response to nature which fed the swirling patterns of his decorative designs. Poet, painter, designer, typographer, polemicist, …
The end of the Roman Empire plunged its territories into ignorance and chaos. Time was left to its own devices as the people struggled to survive, and science was regarded with suspicion. Another fascinating tale of Time from These Fantastic Worlds.
The Julian calendar was altered and misunderstood, but ultimately became the basis for all subsequent records of time until 1582. What is Time? Julian Calendar, the a new blog from These Fantastic Worlds.
Every ancient culture made accurate measurements of celestial motion, but they had a range of different solutions to the conflict between the lunar and solar year.