Going counter-clockwise:
Archimedes (c. 287 BC - 212/211 BC)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Hypatia (c.350-370 - 415 AD)
Collaborative traditional cut and paste (scissors and glue ) collage blog with a weekly set theme.
Lovely and stimulating! I like the background and the abacus. I had not heard of Hypatia! It was wonderful reading about her just now and sharing my discoveries with my husband.
ReplyDeleteThis is a made-up quotation from a spurious biography of Hypatia, but I like it anyway: "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth–often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you can not get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." Truth IS a point of view!
Fi, we were recently in Los Angeles and had lunch at The Inn of the Seventh Ray, which has been in Topanga Canyon since the early 1970s. They have a swell gift shop with beads and incense and candles and interesting books and such. I picked up a small laminated card that pictured a beautiful woman. I turned it over and read:
DeleteHypatia of Alexandria was a noted Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt. She was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria. So great was her wisdom, so beautiful her countenance, so eloquent her speech that she attracted thousands to the path of higher knowledge and wisdom. As a philosopher, she espoused Neoplatonic beliefs. Among these was the belief that ultimate reality was beyond the grasp of human intellect and words, and that it had to be mystically experienced. "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
So, like you, I had never heard of Hypatia before picking up this card. I am glad to provide new information to you and Bob and my fellow Kollage Kit artists.
In case you are interested about The Inn of the Seventh Ray:
Deletewww.innoftheseventhray.com/about-us/#the-inn
Thank you for the new information Angie - like you and Fi, I'd never heard of Hypatia either... so I looked her up in "Forgotten Women - The Scientists" that my cousin Zing wrote last year (along with three other books in her FW series!!!) and sure enough, there she is, on pages 152–155!
ReplyDeletePS the Inn of the Seventh Ray looks great, as does its menu!
DeletePPS... as does this collage of course! That shape in the background at the top left, with the thicker white lines than elsewhere, on that particular blue, really reminds me of the Greek flag as well, so it's particularly apt!
DeleteI used to be told I was bad at math in school - today I would have a disease called dyscalculia. Anyway, I never counted among the great mathematicians!
ReplyDeleteNice collage, Angie! I like the blue background - with symbols I do not understand - haha
Oh my oh my ... math was not my best subject as well. I do not understand the background either.
DeleteNice one. Strangley enough I had that maths book too that you made your colourful background from and used it many times in past work - as did Joseph Cornell who had the same book! We are in good company!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU for informing me about this. I love knowing I am in the GREAT company of Cornell & Leigh!
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