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Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard

The engraving is from Mechanic’s Magazine (cover of bound Volume II, Knight & Lacey, London, 1824) Courtesy of the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverIntro.html GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH A remark of Archimedes quoted by Pappus of Alexandria Collection or Synagoge, Book VIII, c. AD 340 Greek text: Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis Edited by Friedrich Otto Hultsch, Berlin, 1878 (see page 1060)

Outcome Group activity — I asked everyone in the classroom to say what should the current year be, based on the fact that humanity doesn’t have a standardised calendar system.  Brief create/design/a new default/standard Feedback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra   Research Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Lever/LeverLaw.html   The Law… Continue reading Design Without – create/design/a new default/standard