Here is another example of some of the unique and awesome things DJ Apollo
re-posts on his blog WORDVIRUS. Things I never see anywhere else, and
would have missed if not for him. This is an overview of Cosmigraphics,
which is a collection of 4,000 years of man’s attempt to define, through
visual art and science, our understanding of the Cosmos and our role in
it. This is especially pertinent to us now, as both time and our
destiny accelerate, propelling us into an ever-expanding spiral of
ascending collective consciousness, and a yearning to explore and fathom
our place, not only in this Cosmos, but in the vast and infinite space
that contains all Universes. ~PB
Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time in 4,000 Years of Cosmigraphics « WORDVIRUS
by Maria Popova
Long before Galileo pioneered the telescope, antagonizing the church and unleashing a “hummingbird effect” of innovation, humanity had been busy cataloging the heavens through millennia of imaginative speculative maps of the cosmos. We have always sought to make visible the invisible forces we long to understand, the mercy and miracle of existence, and nothing beckons to us with more intense allure than the majesty and mystery of the universe.
Four millennia of that mesmerism-made-visible is what journalist, photographer, and astrovisualization scholar Michael Benson explores with great dedication and discernment in Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time (public library)
— a pictorial catalog of our quest to order the cosmos and grasp our
place in it, a sensemaking process defined by what Benson aptly calls
our “gradually dawning, forever…
A visual catalog of our quintessential quest to understand the cosmos and our place in it.
Long before Galileo pioneered the telescope, antagonizing the church and unleashing a “hummingbird effect” of innovation, humanity had been busy cataloging the heavens through millennia of imaginative speculative maps of the cosmos. We have always sought to make visible the invisible forces we long to understand, the mercy and miracle of existence, and nothing beckons to us with more intense allure than the majesty and mystery of the universe.
Four millennia of that mesmerism-made-visible is what journalist, photographer, and astrovisualization scholar Michael Benson explores with great dedication and discernment in Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time (public library)
— a pictorial catalog of our quest to order the cosmos and grasp our
place in it, a sensemaking process defined by what Benson aptly calls
our “gradually dawning, forever…
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