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History professor Pamela Smith’s Making and Knowing Project uses craft making to understand 16th-century science

By Kat St. Martin / Senior Staff Photographer
A reconstructed recipe from the manuscript, a preserved rat with bird wings attached.
By Beatrice Moyers • October 6, 2022 at 2:24 AM



Photo by Kat St. Martin / Senior Staff Photographer
Smith holds a lifecast of a rose, one of the many entries in the manuscript that contains instructions for lifecasting plants and animals.




Photo by Kat St. Martin / Senior Staff Photographer
The Making and Knowing Project’s laboratory space is home to the Project’s recipe reconstructions.





Photo by Kat St. Martin / Senior Staff Photographer
The manuscript contains a few entries on painting materials and their applications.



Photo by Kat St. Martin / Senior Staff Photographer
These fabrics were dyed using instructions from one of the manuscript’s entries on dyeing.








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