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. . Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. . "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." . . There are various problems as regards language. First, there is the problem what actuall

The instruction of Dua-Khety:   “Sharing knowledge is the greatest of all callings.  There's nothing like it in the land.”   ... regarding the value of written language (to his son, as he entered scribe schoo

'Book of the Dead' papyri are first found in the early New Kingdom c.1450 BC and the finest (like Hunefer's) were written by expert scribes and decorated by master draftsmen. Perhaps, as royal scribe, it was Hunefer himself who put brush to in

link to 43 min. video - discussion of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language

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Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point. On le sent en mille choses. C’est le cœur qui sent Dieu, et non la raison. Voilà ce que c’est que la foi parfaite, Dieu sensible au cœur. The heart has its reasons of which

book info excerpts: He [Poggio Bracciolini] was a superbly well-trained scribe, with exceptionally fine handwriting, great powers of concentration, and a high degree of accuracy. It is difficult for us, at this distance, to take in

Humanistic Script - link to extensive collection of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

De rerum natura - c. 55 BC - On the Nature of Things - Lucretius To the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they entertained of the power of the deitie

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How Handwriting Developed - Graphic Design History website

source excerpt: Because form cannot be long sustained in the living, we collapse inward with age. We die. Our bodies, which were the product of a kind of hidden teaching by an alphabet we are only beginning dimly to discern, are dism

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… from Brock Biology of Microorganisms - 16th ed. - 2021

The Story of Philosophy … from the preface: Human knowledge had become unmanageably vast; every science had begotten a dozen more, each subtler than the rest; the telescope revealed stars and systems beyond the mind of man

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excerpt: The large societies found in some other species, such as ants and bees, are stable and resilient because most of the information needed to sustain them is encoded in the genome. A female honeybee larva can, for example, grow up to be eit

A to Z: The First Alphabet: How Writing Changed the World - NOVA 9/23/20 - PBS video - 54:02

website - extensive collection of visualizations

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calligraphy - website of Brody Neuenschwander

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* visitor's guide *

primary webpage: seeing

secondary webpage: marrow

annotated list of webpages: * annotated *

“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

… see: microscope

“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

… see: seeing

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