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October 14, 2009

suprematist composition #33: on the primacy of movement and undivided wholeness, as implied by postmodern physics (after jean baudrillard)

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completed on 9 august 2008, on view in steenwijk, netherlands, until 16 august 2008

October 12, 2009

the guide for the perplexed (after moses maimonides)

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October 10, 2009

Abu-Bekr ibn-Alzaig rejects the existence of epicycles.

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October 9, 2009

An excentric sphere does not move around the centre of the universe, but round an imaginary point distant from the centre, and therefore round a point which is not fixed.

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October 8, 2009

The motion of the excentric spheres may still be considered as taking place round something fixed, since their centre is apparently within the sphere of the moon.

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October 6, 2009

Abu-Bekr Al-zaig, in his Treatise on Physics, expresses a doubt whether Aristotle knew the excentricity of the sun, but ignored it. Or whether he did not perceive it.

Filed under: kagagallery — ABRAXAS @ 11:59 pm

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October 4, 2009

He took a part of the light of his garment, stretched it like a cloth, and thus the heavens were extending continually.

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October 3, 2009

He covereth himself with light as a garment, he stretcheth the heavens like a curtain.

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October 1, 2009

The same law which caused the existence of a thing after a period of non-existence, is also the cause that the thing is not permanent; since the previous non-existence proves that the nature of that thing does not necessitate its permanent existence.

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September 26, 2009

The vison of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed.

Filed under: kagagallery — ABRAXAS @ 11:49 pm

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September 24, 2009

For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof shall not give their light.

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September 21, 2009

The sun is darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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September 20, 2009

The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun.

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September 18, 2009

The light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.

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September 14, 2009

The lord bindeth up the breaches of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

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September 13, 2009

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven; behold I shall come down upon Idumea.

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September 12, 2009

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.

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September 10, 2009

The defeat of Gog and Magog - the great and the terrible day of the lord.

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September 9, 2009

Recognition of the importance of the Beloussov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

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September 7, 2009

The target pattern that forms spontaneously as waves propagate out from centres in a dish of Beloussov-Zhabotinsky reagent.

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September 6, 2009

Wave patterns in aggregating slime mould amoebae produced by movements of cells towards the source of the propagating signal of camp.

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September 1, 2009

A petri dish covered with these starving amoebae soon begins to develop spatial patterns that look remarkably like the expanding concentric circles of the Beloussov-Zhabotinsky reaction.

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August 30, 2009

The structure of the strange attractor for the chaotic mode of the Beloussov-Zhabotinsky reaction, compared with a typical attractor for a periodic system.

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August 29, 2009

The original lawn of amoebae gradually breaks up into a set of separate aggregating domains, each centred on a single source.

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August 28, 2009

A diagram of the structure of a scroll wave at the tip of a slime mould slug, showing how the scroll unwinds to a planar wave that propagates through the slug from front to back, while the cells move forward, propelling the slug by their collective motion.

Filed under: kagagallery — ABRAXAS @ 6:34 pm

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