Nikola Tesla - Map to multiplication.
Newton and the Color Spectrum
Hand stitched on paper
2015
Danae Stratou
cosmos (1980)
Carl Sagan
“Under the appellations of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is concealed the Great Arcanum of antiquity…
–The mystery of equilibrium.
The Tree of Life represents the spiritual point of balance–the secret of immortality.
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, as its name implies, represents polarity, or unbalance–the secret of mortality.
The Qabbalists reveal this by assigning the central column of their Sephirothic diagram to the Tree of Life and the two side branches to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.“Unbalanced forces perish in the void,” declares the secret work, and all is made known.”
- Manly P. Hall: The Secret Teachings of All Ages
I don’t envy people with lots of money. Why? Because if you don’t have much money you are more easily inclined to find joy in the things that can’t be bought, like in nature and the animals, in good friends and good conversations, in a beautiful sunset and dancing in the rain.
Sereno Sky, author of “Lonely Traveller”
(via hippieseurope)
The Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius
3.ORBIUM PLANETARUM TERRAM COMPLECTENTIUM SCENOGRAPHIA - Scenography of the planetary orbits encompassing the Earth.
5.SCENOGRAPHIA SYSTEMATIS COPERNICANI - Scenography of the Copernican world system.
10.CORPORUM COELESTIUM MAGNITUDINES - The sizes of the celestial bodies [in some copies the terrestrial sphere has the continents drawn in by hand].
15. TYPUS ASPECTUUM, OPPOSITIONUM ET CONIUNCTIONUM ETZ IN PLANETIS - The (astrological) aspects, such as opposition, conjunction, etc., among the planets.
16. THEORIA SOLIS PER ECCENTRICUM SINE EPICYCLO - Representation of the Sun in an eccentric orbit without epicycles.
18. THEORIA LUNÆ, EIUS MOTUM PER ECCENTRICVM ET EPICYCLVM DEMONSTRANS - Representation of the Moon showing its motion in an eccentric orbit with epicycles.
19. TYPUS SELENOGRAPHICUS LUNÆ PHASES ET ASPECTUS VARIOS ADUMBRANS [some copies from the 1660 edition have the nonsensical reading ‘… OS ADVARIUMBRANS’] - Selenographic diagram depicting the varying phases and appearances of the Moon by (means of) shading.