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Three Books of Fishing
Published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on February 20, 2011, and the source for the details of my Mary Rose fishing reel. Following on from some discussion at Newcastle, I present three...
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Folding Furniture Part 3– Spanish Tables
This post was originally published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on November 30, 2011 17th century “Spanish” folding table in oak from Cotehele house. This post takes the form of a photo essay,...
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Innovations of the Seventeenth Century 2 – The Pocket Calculator
Scottish mathematician John Napier, when he wasn’t inventing logarithms, popularising the decimal point or dieing of gout invented one of the earliest pocket calculators. Based on an arabic concept of...
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The Range of Arrows
(Warning: May contain Physics) Archery was officially withdrawn from the ranks of the London Trained Bands in 1593, but continued in the country with the trained bands having a significant number of...
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Innovations of the Seventeenth Century 3 – The Slide Rule
Published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on August 10, 2010 One of the earliest practical applications of logarithms was the development of the slide rule. Imagine, if you will, two rectangular...
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Rivet patterns on 17th century pike armour
This is the long threatened Pike Armour rivet pattern post. It originally appeared in the International Routier in 2006 as part of a resurgence that saw a number of us get pike armour under the Exact...
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Kyng James, Hys Bible
This post was originally published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on May 11, 2011 The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New; Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: &...
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Faux finishes
This one was published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on July 21, 2010 Most of us living in the Antipodes have at some time or another substituted one material for another for reasons of...
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Innovations of the Seventeenth Century 4 – Binary Numbers
Published on internationalroutier.wordpress.com on June 6, 2010 While attributed to many including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Chinese, John Napier was the first to propose a binary...
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Rethinking Dominos
At the start of chapter 3 of a once forthcoming second edition of the Routier Gaming Manual[1], I pontificate: There are no references to dominos in western sources before the middle of the 18th...
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