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...De Architectura’ by the Roman architect Virtruvius, who wrote in the 1st Century BC. ‘De Architectura’ covered both the theory and practice of building, and was the only technical treatise of its kind to have survived from antiquity. It became essential reference material for Renaissance architects. In some of Leonardo’s studies of proportions, his measurements...

...Menabrea’s description of the Analytical Engine ‘Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. These ‘algebraic working’s are what we would now call a computer program – they were the commands that would be punched into Jacquard cards and fed......

...de raip ‘s de spruidhlich catha. An robh an gille air an dream a mhab na h-Iudhaich ‘s na Comunnaich, no air an dream bu mhotha, dhiubh-san a threorakheadh bho thoiseach al gun deoin gu buaireadh agus bruaillean cuthaich gach blair air sgath uachdaran? Ge b'e a dheoin-san no a chas, a neoichiontas no mhiorun, cha do nochd e toileachadh ‘na bhas fo Dhruim...

...de vue (Aguisha)’ Timing: Allow around 10 minutes The song in Audio 3 is ‘Perdu de vue (Aguisha)’ by Papa Wemba and Viva la Musica, a well-known Congolese ensemble. As Table 3 below shows, the song consists of three distinct sections. The start time for the first two sections is given. Read the descriptions of the sections in the ‘Notes’ column of Table 3 and...