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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sutter This mural depicts workers unloading vital supplied from John Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento. Unseen below the American River’s rippling current a precious metal ore reflects the hot summer sun, shattering into a sparkling gold: a golden glimmer that would soon forever alter the dreams of this bold visionary

PROF. DARWIN This is the ape of form Love's Labor Lost, act 5, scene 2. Some four or five descents since. All's Well that Ends Well, act 3, sc.7

. . . We know that they (philosophers) were writing from the heart as well as from the head. Alongside their enormous merits they may have their faults, to be sure: but unsuspected ignorance, prejudice, over-confidence, obscurity -- just to get the list started. But as I hope to have indicated, philosophy is as wide as lie, and in its huge literature are exemplified mot intellectual vices as well as most intellectual virtues. Wishing it were otherwise would be close to wishing that human beings didn’t have minds. ~ Page 118

Progress through conflict: the Storming of the Bastille. Hegel was 19 when the French Revolution occurred -- it made an impression Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin), German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.

fs.blog/a-philosophy-of-walking Rhiannon Beaubien Rhiannon Beaubien. Rhiannon manages and writes for the FS blog. She is the lead writer / project manager of The Great Mental Models book series. Rhiannon also develops a lot of the FS courses content, and presents on mental models to anyone who is interested.

One of the several portraits of Kenelim Digby by Anthony van Dyck. Digby, a friend of Hobbes and a founding member of the Royal Society, played a crucial role in popularizing the word ‘fact’. The sunflower is a symbol of constancy, and the portrait represents Digby in mourning for his wife, Venitia, who had died suddenly in 1633. The sunflower’s ability to follow the Sun could not be explained in Aristotelian terms, and Digby presented it (along with magnetism and the weapon salve) as a paradigmatic example of the problems addressed by th new science of experiment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Digby

‘Que scay-jest’

This portrait of Luca Pacioli, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli often mistakenly attributed to Jacopo de Barbari, was apparently painted in 1495 (the slip of paper on the desk gives the date). Pacioli is teaching from Euclid, and a copy of one of his own books on mathematics is in the right foreground. This is how mathematics was taught in the Renaissance and indeed for centuries afterwards

The line which shows itself to be straight shows also what line is crooked

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