Orcagna scrying engine
The Orcagna scrying engine is a well-known scrying engine built into the statue of Andrea Orcagna at Uffizi in Florence.
On November 16, 1838, the Orcagna scrying engine, under contract to House of Malevecchio, downloaded Abū Sahl al-Qūhī's Perfect Compass protocol, translating the protocol into Italian for the first time. Malevecchio attempted to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French announced Compas Parfait; within fifty years, all of Christendom had similar systems. This period has sometimes been called the Second Renaissance, a kind of computational counterpart of the Enlightenment.
In the News
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."
989: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Abū Sahl al-Qūhī declares that he too is "not the sorceror you describe."