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Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator
- pseudolus 11mo agoVery brief Christie's press release which includes some additional photos: https://press.christies.com/la-pascaline-1642-br-strongpremier-mecanisme-de-lhistoire-a-strongstrongse-substituer-au-raisonnement-humainstrong-330069 https://press.christies.com/la-pascaline-1642-br-strongpremi... .
- anovikov 11mo agoMindblowing that this one-of-a-kind, historical milestone machine made by a genius, is worth 3x less than a goddamn comic magazine.
- abstractspoon 11mo agoMind-blowing and yet also entirely consistent with the world in which we currently find ourselves