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geckzilla,
If this was a history of science site, fine, but it's not.
APOD has always featured the latest, newest science.

And anyway; colouring in? Much vaunted as the new stress-buster, for those who have no life.
Although why anyone with no life is stressed, I cannot imagine unless from poverty, in which case a colouring book and crayons is the last thing they need. Astronomy? Now, that's a life!

John

JohnD wrote:geckzilla,
If this was a history of science site, fine, but it's not.
APOD has always featured the latest, newest science.

And anyway; colouring in? Much vaunted as the new stress-buster, for those who have no life.
Although why anyone with no life is stressed, I cannot imagine unless from poverty, in which case a colouring book and crayons is the last thing they need. Astronomy? Now, that's a life!

You are a curmudgeonly old fellow.

The title of this illustration is "τα μετά τα φυσικά" (i.e. that which lies beyond the perceptual/sensual/measurable/material/physical world). It refers to the Platonist and Neo-Platonist philosophies according to which all material/measurable/perceptual things are but emanations (material renderings) of things that exist beyond the physical world. This makes them - at least currently - unreachable, hidden, and only approachable by philosophers who have experienced a kind of "enlightenment" or "vision" of that "other" world. The illustration shows this philosopher's moment of "enlightenment". If my words make no sense, I'd gladly refer you all to the allegory of the Cave, written by Platon (5th-4th century BCE) himself, in which he uses metaphors to make us understand that "what most humans are able to perceive, see, and imagine, is but a two-dimensional shadow of three-dimensional objects, cast upon the wall of a cave by the light of the sun shining into the cave from outside, and seen by human beings who are chained to the other wall and cannot move nor see the source of the light nor the true objects themselves, of which they only see a vague shadow or "form".

Heading into the infinite...

One day I will turn around and see who is painting my reality.

"Wheels Within Wheels" or something along the lines of:
"The Enlightening Of Ezekiel"

Suggested titles of the picture:

"Into the Unknown"

"The Cosmic Matrioshka"

"The Worlds behind the Veil"

A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".

BEHIND THE FIRMAMENT

Giordano Bruno's Trip

Watching the wheels

Evviebear wrote:
A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".

• A.k.a. Brexit.

Evviebear wrote:A good name would be "Poking Our Noses Into the Unknown".

I would guess, it is less the nose than the spirit..
Therefore better: Human mind sees unknown spheres.

Died and went to heaven.

geckzilla wrote: You are a curmudgeonly old fellow.

By no means! Sunshine and laughter! See my portrait!
John

A Peek into Heaven
The Mechanics of the Universe

supplement:

"We have not to ask why the human mind expends so much effort to explore the mysteries of heaven. ...
Our creator has added to the senses the spirit that we penetrate the being of the things, which we are seeing with the eyes, to the causes of their being and their becoming."
Johannes Kepler, 1596

What We Reach For

Caption: "Nihil est id quid videtur"

Simply - "Discovery"

The "wheels within wheels" shows rather obviously that it is inspired by the visions of the prophet Daniel.

I stand corrected by Firmament. It's from Ezekiel.

Seek and Ye Shall Find

or

Revelation

....

The Hand of God

Imagination Box