A fact from Rule of marteloio appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio(pictured) to navigate at sea?
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The article seems excellent to me, among the best on Wikipedia. I would expect significantly shortening it to make it harder to follow, harder to understand, and missing important context. But what did you have in mind? Can you be specific? –jacobolus(t)14:54, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]