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By learning for oneself, you may discover freedom.
Current findings about Florida water quality alerts for Karenia brevis, or Red Tide. Seeing the world as it may be, may have been, & could be. Too much? Need a break . . . |
"For emerging out of science itself is a new vision that connects us with everything in the universe and attaches us in the web of life on earth. This scientific version of our origins is a rephrasing of what are often thought of as primitive worldviews."
David Suzuki "We are part of the Web," Inventing the Future (Toronto: 1989), p. 223.
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| Magritte, "False Mirror," 1928 | |
Magritte "seems to insinuate limits to the authority of optical vision: a mirror provides a mechanical reflection, but the eye is selective and subjective. . . . the viewer both looks through it, as through a window, and is looked at by it, thus seeing and being seen simultaneously." |
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Ways of visualizing the world; science as a means of knowing.
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| Galileo first saw four moons circling Jupiter and was amazed by what he recorded. | The use of mirrors and frames in Post-Renaissance art shown here by Albrecht Dürer enabled artists to depict the world in a new, more precise manner, 1525. | The Cartesian coordinate system allowed formulas to be represented in three dimensional space. |
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| The Roman goddess Magna Mater, Rome. | The Madonna with Child, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. |
| Do you notice any similarities or resemblances of the statue to the more familiar figure in the mosaic on the right hand side ? | |
One of Durer's Perspective Machines
Kurth, Plate 338
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