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Orcagna scrying engine.

In the News

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  September 16, 1839: Spokesman for the Uffizi scoffs at the notion of "scrying engines", declares that "Andrea Orcagna is many things -- painter, sculptor, architect -- but he is not the sorcerer you describe."

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  989: Mathematician, physicist, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Abū Sahl al-Qūhī declares that he too is "not the sorceror you describe."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• House of Malevecchio
• Orcagna scrying engine
• Perfect Compass
• Scrying engine

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (nonfiction)
• Engine (nonfiction)
• Orcagna (nonfiction)
• Scrying (nonfiction)

Attribution:

(1) Statue of Andrea Orcagna at the Uffizi: By Abraham Sobkowski OFM - Modified photo previously added to the wikipedia by Sailko under GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons: commons.wikimedia.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11120376

(2) Etching of a compass by Abū Sahl al-Qūhī: By Abū Sahl al-Qūhī - Persian Wikipedia, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15898958

(3) Image mashup by Karl Jones.