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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronomer_(Vermeer) . . . . In ‘The Astronomer’ a large astrolabe, which also measures angles of altitude in the heavens, rets against the celestial globe on the cabinet is a chart that is thought to be a celestial planisphere, and on the table in front of the astronomer is a book open to an illustration of the cartwheel astrolabe, which was invented by the author, Adrian Metius. As explained by Welu, Metius’s basic text on astronomy and geography (Institutiones Astronomicae, Geographicae, Amsterdama 1621) offered ‘short and clear instruction for the art of navigation’ (according to Metius himself) and is open to the first two pages of Book III, ‘On the Investigation or Observation of the Stars.’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulab_jamun Gulab Jamun is known to originate from medieval Iran and was derived from a fritter made from refined flour (maida) dipped in sugary syrup that Central Asian Turkic invaders brought along with them to India.

All the philosophers, including Kant, who have sought the origin of our idea of time, have agreed that it comes from change. Aristotle noted “that time . . . does not exist without changes.” But what changes? The changes in our sensations or the changes in our thoughts? The answer to this question depends on every philosopher’s individual conceptions of the idea. Basically these temporal conditions all stem from the fact that we live in physical, technical, and social backgrounds which are changing all the time. We do not only undergo these changes, we create them, for our own activity is itself nothing but a succession of changes. ~ Paul Fraisse

Gigne de nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti

A further upshot of the First Analogy is a useful distinction between ‘change’ and ‘alteration’. A change occurs when one thing or quality goes out of existence and is replaced by another. An alternation occurs when a thing persists, but undergoes a change of quality. For example, with respect of a leaf’s transition in colour from green to brown, one would say that leaf itself undergoes an alteration of colour. In the broadest comprehension of sensory experience, Kant maintains that the projection of the category of substance onto experience as a whole entails that ultimately, there are only changes of sensory quality, and no changes in substance. To express this with greater profundity, he mentions the Latin phrase, ‘gigni de nihilo nihil, in nihilium nil posse reverti,’ which translates as ‘nothing comes from nothing, and nothing returns to nothing’. ~ Page 100

The structure of the faculty of Understanding

. . . . Kant maintains that space and time are within us before we experience any objects. . . . . the things we perceive are not in themselves what we perceive them as being, nor are their relations in themselves such as they appear to us, so that, if we remove the subject or the subjective form of our senses, all qualities, all relations of objects in space and time, indeed space and time themselves, would disappear . . . .Time is (therefore) simply a subjective condition of our (human) intuition . . .and in itself, apart from the subject, is nothing. ~ page 57 HWW & Happy New Year to all

After a Deep cleaning by her dentist

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge. The very name given to the highest institutions of learning reminds us, that from antiquity and throughout many centuries the universal aspect has been the only one to be given full credit. But the spread, both in width and depth, of the multifarious branches of knowledge during the last hundred odd years has confronted us with a queer dilemma. We feel clearly that we are only now beginning to acquire reliable material for welding together the sum total of all that is known into a whole; but, on the other hand, it has become next to impossible for a single mind fully to command more than a small specilized portion of it. ~ (Preface)

North America straddles the equator and is rotated almost 90 degrees with the early Appalachian forming a range of its southern coast. Most of the continent is covered by a shallow sea (Colorado Plateau Geosystem Inc)

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else. ~ Bootsy Collins

An outcrop of rocks from the bottom of the Ordovician ocean in Southwest Eisconsin. Weeds are growing in layers of Volcanic ash