Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Lavas, marbles and other stones from Vesuvius which were polished.




Sir William Hamilton - Campi Flegrei. Observations on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London, Naples 1776.
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4 comments:

  1. bolingo69February 27, 2010 at 3:35 AM

    The marbles of the lavas are beautiful (I remember some streets in Naples...) but so are "lichen"

    I love to google that word in Images mode in google :-)

    http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=lichen&aql=&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

    Thanks for these pictures so soothing to the eyes and soul...Like visual music...

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  2. JanasFebruary 28, 2010 at 12:53 AM

    Hi Bo!
    I really enjoy to look at these pictures of lichens, their abstract palette colors and their magic fractal geometry.

    Take a look at this beautiful illustrated book.


    Histoire des lichens. Genre Sticta - Delise, Domenic François. d. 1841:

    link

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  3. bolingo69February 28, 2010 at 3:22 AM

    Thank you Janas,

    I did take a look and it is very beautiful indeed!

    also do check out :

    http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/NHRareBooks/Spalowsky/SIL6-1-_1Page139.html

    forward or backwards there are very nice illustrations...

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  4. JanasFebruary 28, 2010 at 6:23 AM

    Great amazement when looking to these splendid manifestations of biological art. Illustrations to reflect on the forms and the beauty of nature, source of inspirations for artists.

    Thanks for the link!

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