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...16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung ecstatically wide, was based on a mediocre diagram of Vitruvian man in an old treatise on proportion; it transcends its source as Macbeth transcends Holinshed...
...simplest and most common combination of the gates is the half-adder, which is designed to add two Is, a 1 and a 0, or two 0s (see diagram). If other half-adders are linked to the circuit, producing a series of what computer designers call full adders, the additions can be carried over to other columns for tallying up ever higher numbers. Indeed, by using only addition, the computer can perform the three other arithmetic functions. Multiplication is often accomplished by repeated additions, division by repeated subtractions. Subtraction, on the other hand, can be done by an old trick...
...afternoon the class labors on written reports, using library books and four sets of well-worn encyclopedias. Sixth-graders are taught how to write compositions with a bibliography; recent subjects include Roman history and Michelangelo. Second-graders learn how to diagram sentences. Collins doles out plenty of encouragement. "You're not slow; you just haven't been taught properly," she tells laggards in her strong voice, often hugging them for good measure...
...picture is remarkably simple. The tapestry, or any other object to be photographed, is set up exactly 3.9 meters (13 ft.) away from the focal point of the lens, that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...
...Voyagers have some special baggage: a sound-and-light show designed to give anyone (or anything) that might intercept the ship an idea of what things are like back on Earth. Earthly images include slides showing human anatomy and a diagram of human conception, mathematical formulas, and a shot of Idaho's spectacular Snake River. Among the recordings: street sounds, the cry of a newborn baby, the hum of a string quartet, the roar of a Saturn rocket lifting off. Also included is a greeting written and read by President Carter. "This is a present from a small, distant...