tactile map from an atlas by Samuel Gridley Howe, Diagram showing series of five pulleys where one weight, labeled q, balances another weight, labeled w, that is sixteen times heavier, 1836, after J. L. Comstock, A System of Natural Philosophy
tactile map from an atlas by Samuel Gridley Howe, Diagram showing series of five pulleys where one weight, labeled q, balances another weight, labeled w, that is sixteen times heavier, 1836, after J. L. Comstock, A System of Natural Philosophy

“"For Howe, bringing blind and low-vision students into society meant teaching them as the sighted were taught and with materials as close as possible to those used by sighted students"- on tactile maps + pedagogical materials https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/694538”

article here: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1086/694538

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Roberto Greco

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