MetaState: Science Since Babylon. Part 8 - When the Arcane is just Geometry
The 1des 0f 1deas - A podcast by Jeremy Bentham
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Covering all of Chapter 4, antiquity has provided us a litany of angels mistaken or represented as angles and vice versa. A visually-dependent portion of the book, you may also enjoy consulting my own visual confection experiment of Price's work here. Many images become symbols for many reasons, across many disciplines; sometimes they remain in the barely approachable station of knowledge, as their weighted and direct lineage of discovery is ill-told. Many of civilizations talismans possess many portent utilities, embedding itself into architecture, astrology, algebraic influence all the same. Cultures cross continents breath differing life into similar shapes, each a varying degree of geometric brilliance, like enjoying many different trees across the globe, each telling a different tale while each enriching us with oxygen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-bentham/support