The Observatory of Alexandria with an astronomer measuring the heavens with some instruments (cross staff, mariner’s astrolabe) which actually belong to a much later period (source: Camille Flammarion, L’Astronomie Populaire: Description générale du ciel, Paris: 1880)

The Stag & Unicorn

In paganism, the stag and unicorn are powerful symbols with spiritual significance. The stag represents strength, virility, and the cycle of life and death, embodying the wild and natural world. The unicorn, on the other hand, symbolises purity, magic, and spiritual enlightenment.

Together, they reflect the balance between the earthly and the spiritual, highlighting the harmony between nature and mystical forces in pagan tradition.

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Emma Hart in a Straw Hat (circa 1787)
by George Romney

Springtime (1873)
by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

The European Aesthetics and People channel would like to recognize the greatest of all Irish philosophers, Bishop Berkeley, whom is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era of Western philosophy.

Esse est percipi
“To be is to be perceived.”

His most famous question has become popular throughout the centuries… “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley

[Portrait of Berkeley (1727) by John Symbert]

“Only the countryside is a nourishing social estate, all other social estates are consumers.” — Otto von Bismarck

Dolomites, Italy

π

[Portrait of William Jones (1740) by William Hogarth]

William Jones was the first to realize pi was an irrational, non-repeating number, and while it could be continually refined and expressed as a decimal, it was infinite and would never have an ultimate conclusion.

He later became the editor and publisher of many of Newton's manuscripts, and built up an extraordinary library that was one of the greatest collections of books on science and mathematics ever known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)