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Book Review: Mazes and Labyrinths
Book Review: Mazes and Labyrinths
Book Review: Mazes and Labyrinths by W.H. Matthews
Humans have long been fascinated by structures that pack the maximum amount of path in a small space, and those that create a puzzle to move through to find a center or exit. This 1922 book was the first major work in English to take a thorough look at the history and locations of mazes and labyrinths.
The author mentions in the introduction…
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
It’s finally April or if you remember some Chaucer Aprille
‘The Chaucer Astrolabe’
On display at the British Museum
Dating to 1326 and of English origin, this is the oldest extant European astrolabe. It is known today as the ‘Chaucer Astrolabe’ because a similar instrument was described by Geoffrey Chaucer in a treatise written in 1391.
In the late medieval period, astrolabes were used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies in order to determine the time or to make astrological predictions. Medieval science, and particularly medicine, looked to astrology in order to explain a variety of natural phenomena including epidemic diseases like the plague.
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Meant to post this yesterday <3
These are my interpretations of the cast of Frasier in their Halloween costumes for Niles’s library association party. S05E03 “Halloween”
Would anyone be interested in this or an individual character as a print?
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I’m immune to Typo In the Group Chat syndrome because if I ever make one that’s really worth ragging on I’ll just write a tabletop RPG about it, and now every time you give me shit about it you’re promoting my work.
