Diagram of Moore’s Law 1971-2011, which “is a rule of thumb in the history of computing hardware whereby the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.”
June 3, 2012
Moore's Law
December 7, 2011
Human Voice Spectrograph:
A spectrogram (0-5000 Hz) of the sentence “It’s all Greek to me” spoken by a female voice.
June 20, 2011
ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF APOLLO
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
June 13, 2011
Hans Holbein the Younger 1528 “Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling” Oil and tempera on oak, 54 × 38.7 cm, National Gallery, London.
June 2, 2011
Roman Fresco Married couple
From the reception room in the villa of P. Fannius Synistor. Boscoreale, 50-40 BCE. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
June 1, 2011
(via AD REINHARDT papers, 1927-1968 “Sketch for Fine Artist Strike Leaflet”, - Digitized Collection Viewer | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
June 1, 2011
Greek statue, 4th century BCE: Marble head of a veiled woman
May 19, 2011
May 8, 2011
Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos: “Mediterranean Map” taken from “The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes. The manuscript is a copy, probably made in Egypt in the late 12th or early 13th century, of an anonymous work compiled in Egypt during the first half of the 11th century. It is extraordinarily important for the history of science, especially for astronomy and cartography, and contains an unparalleled series of diagrams of the heavens and maps of the earth. No less importantly, both the illustrations and the text preserve material gathered from Muslim astronomers, historians, scholars, and travellers, of the 9th to 11th centuries, whose works are now either lost or preserved only in fragments.”
http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk/hms/home.php
http://cosmos.bodley.ox.ac.uk/hms/unilister.php?show=chapters&reset=1&expand=732,814,
April 26, 2011
Madonna della Misericordia (Piero della Francesca) 1460-62 Oil and tempera on panel, 134 x 91 cm, Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_della_Francesca
Here it is in context:
http://www.casasantapia.com/images/art/pierodellafrancesca/madonnaofmisericordia0700.jpg
April 23, 2011
“The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of human hands in the cave, but there are also many depictions of animals, such as guanacos (Lama guanicoe ), still commonly found in the region, as well as hunting scenes. The people responsible for the paintings may have been the ancestors of the historic hunter-gatherer communities of Patagonia found by European settlers in the 19th century.” (Unesco)
April 22, 2011
(click animation above)
WAVE THEORY
See physics professor Dan Russell’s website “Acoustics and Vibration Animations”:
April 21, 2011
“The House of Stone Carpets” Ravenna, Italy 5th - 6th century CE. Recently discovered roman mosaics from the Byzantine era located under the Church of S. Eufemia.
April 19, 2011
Super-Small Transistor Created: Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2011) — A University of Pittsburgh-led team has created a single-electron transistor that provides a building block for new, more powerful computer memories, advanced electronic materials, and the basic components of quantum computers…
April 17, 2011
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