While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]
In his treatise on The Fourth Dimension (1904), British mathematician Charles Hinton demonstrated how three-dimensional representations do not adequately represent all of the elements of matter, only its three spatial coordinates, […]
American inventor and photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford, then entrepreneur and horse breeder, later Governor of California, to study the motion of his horses at his ranch […]
In his exposition on the geometry of movement, Choreutics (1966), choreographer and dance theorist Rudolf von Laban attributed the ancient Greek term choreosophia, a combination of choros meaning circles and sophia meaning […]
Until the publication of The Seven Lamps of Architecture in 1849, John Ruskin published anonymously. For the first two volumes of his Modern Painters (1843, 1846), Ruskin was identified only as […]
The Circus was produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1928. In this scene, the Tramp runs headlong into a fun house mirror maze to avoid capture by the police, after […]
Although Einstein’s “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper” (“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”), known later as his Special Theory of Relativity, and his “Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” (“The Foundation of […]
The Ashmole manuscript (1511) is held in the collection of the Bodliean Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford. This Bestiary Book, in Latin Liber bestiarum, as with […]
The Sacro bosco in Bomarzo, Italy, also known as Parco dei Mostri, was built by Pier Francesco “Vicino” Orsini, patron of the arts, as a melancholy tribute to his lost love in […]
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a […]
Jodi La Coe, R.A. 