In the essay entitled "The Major Arcana" I emphasize that "something happened" to the Tarot in the late 1600s, when a new trend emerged in the images of the Major Arcana. I point to the Marseilles family of decks and the Etteilla Tarots to illustrate my point.The images shown by Antoin...
299 large measure to the sagacious and competent management of Mr. l h i r ; and whilst he personally took out numerous patents, and NaB interested in manyjoint inventions, for looms andother machinery, the business of the firm was gradually extended to the manufacture of railway chairs and...
From the ancient discovery of the camera obscura to the 18th century mechanical devices used to create silhouettes such as the physionotrace, this initial chapter explores the inventions and inventors that preceded photography. It recreates the experiments of Johann Schulze who proved the light sensi...
turbulent drag and coriolis force are balanced. It was named after scientist Vagn Walfrid Ekman who explained the phenomena for the first time. Ekman layer extends to height of 300–500 m. In this layer wind direction is affected by earth’s rotation. Wind speed his layer generally increases...
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