#CloseUp Dwarfing all the other objects in this display case is a HUGE key labelled 'BELGIUM 16th Cent. Probably key to the West Gate of a Flemish town.' Pitt Rivers Museum @Pitt_Rivers #keys #museums #Belgium

These glass models of British sea anemones were created by the Blaschkas, who specialized in glasswork, running it as a family business over 300yrs & 9 generations. In the late 19c L.Blaschka turned his skills to making models of microscopic organisms and soft-bodied invertebrates. Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo #glasswork #glass #Blaschkas #glassart

Cistercian Numbers; are an extremely interesting and basically forgotten number system developed 8 Centuries Ago. It is much more compact than Arabic and Roman systems, you can basically write any integer from 1 to 9999 with one character. @archeohistories #Numbers