A visual commonplace book
Art
Selected images, with links to their original posts.
From Ibn Sina to space, 1980 Soviet mural in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
A medieval diagram of the phases of the Moon, shared for the new moon in Gemini.
Al-Jazari’s 13th-century robotic swordsman candle clock, paired with the aphorism that time is like a sword.
A lunar-motion diagram attributed in the source post to the 11th-century polymath al-Biruni.
A visual study made in response to Nous Research and the idea that software should be beautiful.
Video
A depiction of Taurus in Islamic art, with Venus shown above the bull.
Geometry as logic organized into spatial form.
A 13th-century design for a wine-drinking robot by Ismail al-Jazari.
A visual accompaniment to Ibn ʿAtaʾillah’s teaching that sincerity gives actions their inner life.
The schizos shall inherit the earth
A visual accompaniment to sayings attributed to Imam al-Shafi‘i about time, truth, and the soul.
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