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Other people's paintings. 8230;there when the wave has gone by. Common knowledge: John Conduitt recorded a memo on the last day of August in 1726 that mentioned a common glass prism purchased from Stourbridge Fair (a short walk along the Cam from Trinity to a broad green summer meadow in 1665, presumably worn to tan earth from the passage of crowds). We can easily link this to the tremulous prism and eye on fol.122. Questiones quaedam Philosophiae,. Experiments and Considerations touching Colour,. The im...
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Other people's paintings. Joseph Scaliger, reading the architecture of night. Just past the oak-leaves of the historiated capital. Joseph Scaliger quietly corrected accents in brownish ink, and wrote corrections in the margins of his 1552 edition of Vitruvius,. De architectura libri decem. Surfaces in the note to. I, 318 from Scaliger’s second edition of Manilius. Corrected the Greek, and combined the two sentences, to properly end at. For all of this, Scaliger confessed:. They made me keeper of vineyard...
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FFVII: Character and materia management. Posted by Andrew Simone. On February 10, 2011 · 13 Comments. Nothing like hotseating a console game with an out-of-town friend for a few days to get you long past the end of disk one. But with controller swapping, comes strategic differences and philosophical clashes. After hashing out our differences in front of the monitor with Irish Whiskey, we came up with a standard, go-to party structure. Added effect paired with Time for stop and slow. Odin (the power of th...
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Other people's paintings. The coral-colored incipit on folio 6. Of this manuscript (Vat.Pal.lat 1741), which was composed in Heidelberg. 1450-1500, might claim. Incipit fabularia supra XII libros metamorphoses,. But the text has less to do with Ovid than with the late-antique mythographer Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, as the opening reference to Diophantus of Sparta makes clear. In any case, the genealogies of gods could be quite confusing, and the image above (fol.4. And reveals the misreadings of Giova...
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Other people's paintings. The palimpsest, and broken hive. While other Millions were employ’d. To see their Handy-works destroy’d…. When he first composed his Fable of the Bees. In 1705, Bernard Mandeville had centuries of precedent to harvest. Indeed, book IV (1-285) of Virgil’s Georgics. Just below is the LCIA from dulcia. 4345-46). Can you see them, below the spiky rubricated canticle? Of course, the text of Virgil is most stable, and the manuscripts of the Georgics. And edited by Scott Paul McGinnis.
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Other people's paintings. The palimpsest, and broken hive. A multifoliate rose of visual rhetoric. Joseph Scaliger, reading the architecture of night. 8230;there when the wave has gone by. Reading the geometrical point. Ole Worm and the copperplate lemming. The visual display of planetary latitudes. Although reprinted in black-and-white, a planetary graph of this type appears on page 28 of Edward Tufte’s. Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Commentariorum in Somnium Scipionis. That is to say:.
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Other people's paintings. A multifoliate rose of visual rhetoric. After the Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner made his first observations of sunspots from Ingolstadt in 1611, but long before he depicted the Duke of Bracchiano surrounded by a beaded circle of roses and identically mottled suns in the lavish Rosa Ursina. Of 1630, the Disquisitiones Mathematicae. If the earth rotates about the center (marked with a barely visible. Along the polar axis ν/λ, an object dropped from point ν to the left would...
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Other people's paintings. Reading the geometrical point. Although my first few thoughts on the visual representation of the geometrical point have been lost beneath the layered digital strata of more recent posts, I thought that I might examine a single faint fragment of marginal Greek from folio 3. 194, which is a XII. Century Austrian edition of the. Itaque, ut singula iuxta praedictam rationem definiam. Indivisibile signum: quod Graece simion dicitur. Just in case, a German edition of Capelli.
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Other people's paintings. Ole Worm and the copperplate lemming. Among descriptions of Ethiopian manuscripts and Mesoamerican glyphs, the collected narwhal tusks, tortoise shells and fossils of the renowned. Of Ole Worm (1588-1654) we find this engraving in the posthumous catalog of his collection, the. Museum Wormianum, seu Historia Rarum Rariorum. Amstelodami, 1655) on page 325. It’s a well-known topic, for anyone who has skimmed Wikipedia, or played. Exotericarum excercitationum liber XV. 51) had persi...
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