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Description: | The idea of the trade card as a brightly coloured collectable picture came from America in the nineteenth century. In Britain trade cards had been usually black and white despite the arrival of multicoloured cards in Europe during the 1880s. The cigarette card and other 'collectables' result from the multicoloured trade cards. This card features the scholar Gerbert of Aurillac (d.1003) who later became the first French pope, Silvestre II. Arab astronomers had developed the astrolabe, used to measure and predict the position of the sun and stars, and to define the time of day. Gerbert is credited with bringing knowledge of Islamic science to Europe. The astrolabe continued to be used in Europe until the late seventeenth century, before the arrival of telescopic instruments. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | technology social history trade Silvestre II portrait horology | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1930-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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