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The ceiling of the Jesuit church of St. Ignazio in Rome - made 3D by the extraordinary genius of Andrea Pozzo. One of the finest illusionistic ceiling frescoes ever painted.
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โMax Weber spoke of the โdisenchantment of the worldโ and โlife in an iron cage.โ Are we really doomed to this cage, or have we locked ourselves in it? This is, first and foremost, an intuition: life is much more than this. In spite of everything, in spite of all our attempts to โrationalizeโ it, to make it comprehensible and predictable, life nonetheless remains a mystery. In its โgreat returnโ, myth can tell us about what this mystery is. Perhaps we can expect a great wave of โre-mythologizationโ, the creation of new mythologies after the general banalization that has now reached an unprecedented extent. The future, however, is unpredictable. Even today, man does not live fully in a rational universe, one part of him forever belongs to the great realms of the mythical.โ
โ Boris Nad, (Re-)Writing Myth: An Interview with Boris Nad
Image: Issa and giantโs head by Nicholas Roerich
โ Boris Nad, (Re-)Writing Myth: An Interview with Boris Nad
Image: Issa and giantโs head by Nicholas Roerich
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The Ford-Kerrigan Mansion in Manhattan, New York City . In Present Day Notice the Mud-flooded First Floor was Dug out Adding a 5th Floor instead of 4 floors seen in the late 1800s Photo .
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That which shatters the silence, we call noise. That which enhances the silence, we call music.
Joh Kepler. Years of life: 1630 - 1930. Located in the city of Bad Wildbad, Germany.
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Here we have a very interesting tombstone. If we look at the inscriptions, we discover that a certain Mr. Kepler lived an astonishing 300 years!!!
When I first came across this photograph, I assumed it was a memorial monument erected in honor of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), the renowned German astronomer and mathematician, commemorating the 300th anniversary of his passing in 1630.
However, it appears that this assumption is incorrect, and here's why:
๐1. On the tombstone, it doesn't say Johannes Kepler, but rather Joh Kepler. One might assume that it is simply an abbreviation of his name. However, why would someone write only an abbreviation instead of the full name, especially if the person was of public significance? It doesn't make sense.
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Here we have a very interesting tombstone. If we look at the inscriptions, we discover that a certain Mr. Kepler lived an astonishing 300 years!!!
When I first came across this photograph, I assumed it was a memorial monument erected in honor of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), the renowned German astronomer and mathematician, commemorating the 300th anniversary of his passing in 1630.
However, it appears that this assumption is incorrect, and here's why:
๐1. On the tombstone, it doesn't say Johannes Kepler, but rather Joh Kepler. One might assume that it is simply an abbreviation of his name. However, why would someone write only an abbreviation instead of the full name, especially if the person was of public significance? It doesn't make sense.
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