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    A volvelle or wheel chart is a type of slide chart, a paper construction with rotating parts. It is considered an early example of a paper analog computer...
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  • shipping date was held up by the intricate inner sleeve design based around a volvelle, with numerous images visible through holes in the outer cover. It was...
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    umbrella term for movable book, pop-ups, tunnel books, transformations, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and other features each performing...
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    bound decoratively, with about 100 known copies, it included several Volvelles that allowed users to calculate dates, the positions of constellations...
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    A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera...
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    then abandoned the idea. Twenty-one of its 36 woodcuts are volvelles. Astronomicum's volvelles rely on a geocentric model of the universe. However, despite...
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  • to be volvelles, a type of movable book with a wheel, which at the time was used to help display astrological and geographical maps. Volvelles were a...
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    information. A circular slide chart is sometimes referred to as a wheel chart or volvelle. Unlike other hand-held mechanical calculating devices such as slide rules...
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    nothing was able to be performed because it was deemed unsafe. They used a volvelle, a rotating calendar, to calculate the moon’s position as well as multiple...
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    scale – Auxiliary scale of a measurement device, used to increase precision Volvelle – Paper construct with rotating parts, may be considered a subclass of...
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  • other, several short-short stories and nearly 200 drawings—presented in a volvelle-like circular array—by Dave Eggers; "Comedy by the Numbers" booklet attached...
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    1994 Apologetics Catalan literature List of pioneers in computer science Volvelle Born 1232 per Mark D. Johnston in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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  • volte-face, voltigeur, volubility, voluble, volume, voluminous, volva, volvelle, volvent, Volvox, voussoir †volūtō volūt- volūtav- volūtat- vomō vom- vomu-...
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    Paper craft Paper fortune teller Paper plane Pop-up book Visual poetry Volvelle Zine "税理士に向いている人とは、どんな人なのか". Archived from the original on 9 May 2019....
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  • or hands of figures triggered by a transversely connected iron wire. Volvelles have moving parts, but these and other paper materials that can be manipulated...
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  • allowed the next wheel to show through when particular challenge symbols were aligned Volvelle Slide chart Interactive code wheels online on OldGames.sk...
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    developments in calligraphy and silverwork. Some Symmes dials included a volvelle. Jacobean 1588-1653 Elias Allen, the mathematical instrument maker. These...
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    genre is a modern convention. In Middle English, lunarie referred to volvelles and not prognostic texts. The Latin lunaria had a similar usage. The term...
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    position. "Pop-up books" is a term sometimes applied to other movable books, volvelles, tunnel books, pull tabs, and other varied forms of paper engineering;...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-43485-0. Retrieved 4 January 2013. britishmuseum.org, latitude-table / volvelle (lunar phase and age) / perpetual calendar / nocturnal / equinoctial dial...
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    Acousmatic live performance 5th order 3-D higher-order ambisonics. (2015) Volvelle 1 (20'34). Acousmatic 5th order 3-D higher-order ambisonics. (2015) Allure...
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  • slipcase, and "Either/Or" is a "magic wallet". Chen has also worked with the volvelle or wheel chart, which is a set of stacked paper disks of varying sizes...
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  • visited by researchers around the world for the study of pop-up books, volvelles, flip-books, and other kinds of movable paper art both modern and historic...
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