Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan, discusses the monumental scientific devices that appear in the Byzantine literary and pictorial tradition, particularly the windvane that stood for centuries in Constantinople before its destruction during the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE) and the Nilometer used for measuring the rising levels of the Nile.
This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link.
Detail of a Nilometer from a 5th-cenctry CE floor mosaic, Sepphoris, Israel
