30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus

 Barcodes in Nature

I have used the barcode as a symbol of precise analysis, in all its beauty. Mixed light is sorted into its rainbow of component colours and everybody sees beauty. That is a first analysis. Closer detail reveals fine lines and a new elegance, the elegance of detection, of the bringing of order and understanding. Fraunhofer barcodes speak to us of the exact elemental nature of distant stars. A precisely measured pattern of stripes is a coded message from across the parsecs. There is grace in th...
Folksonomies: nature language barcodes
Folksonomies: nature language barcodes
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13 OCT 2013 by ideonexus

 Studying Nature Brings Us Closer to the Gods

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods.
Folksonomies: nature astronomy naturalism
Folksonomies: nature astronomy naturalism
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Ptolemy explains the rapturous feelings he gets from studying the stars.