1941-2010
Thursday
HOW TO MAKE FLYING DRAGONS
i'm addicted to digital books (especially when they're books from the 1600's that i'd never be able to go through page by page any other way...).
(click on the title to flip through)
written by john bate in 1634. apparently isaac newton was given a copy of this book as a teenager by the headmaster of his school. he copied out sections and built working models out of some of the water clocks/wheels.
Wednesday
Tuesday
HEAVENLY VAULTS
excerpt from the archives of science & religion today, with pictures from David Stephenson's heavenly vaults:
"Researchers studying awe, an emotional state closely linked to transcendence, believe that a key trigger is a sense of vastness. Encountering objects or spaces that are extremely large in scale, from Ayer’s Rock to the Grand Canyon, stimulates what psychologists call a need for accommodation — a need to take this new experience and fit it into our existing mental models, stretching them in the process. As our mental models struggle to accommodate the power behind works of great scale (both natural and manmade), we feel smaller by comparison. Our focus broadens, which effectively minimizes our daily preoccupations."
Monday
Sunday
NOTITIA DIGNITATUM
these miniature silk screened prints are based on the NOTITIA DIGNITATUM, a manuscript which depicts the shield patterns of hundreds of units of the roman army as it existed at the start of the 5th century AD.
Saturday
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