FRAGMENT CORPORA: TEXT REFERENCES BY CHAPTER:
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He form’d a line and a plummet To divide the Abyss beneath…
Blake, W. (orig. 1794) The Book of Urizen. Dover Fine Art
it was some of these other items that impressed Bocchi the most; these included a head of Julius Caesar…
Listri, M. (2022 ) Cabinet of Curiosities. Taschen
The air itself is one vast library on whose pages…
Babbage, Charles (1837) The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise –
Benjamin Franklin now wrote to Banks describing something even more fantastic: a series of aerial experiments involving very large paper bags…
Letter From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Banks, 30 August [2 September 1783]
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Times on times he divided…
Blake, W. (orig. 1794) The Book of Urizen. Dover Fine Art
In 1906 the American explorer Captain Robert Peary… –
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the word “algorithm” derives from…
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Layers, oxidation, accretion, patina and decay…
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The Cabinet of curiosities is synonymous…
Listri, M. (2022 ) Cabinet of Curiosities. Taschen
The houses that are the dwellings of today…
Ferdowsi, A. (1010) The Shahnameh. This edition: tr. Dick Davis (2016) Penguin Books
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The garden, in which the painter…
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In between his walk on the moon in 1971…
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The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings…
Ferdowsi, A. (1010) The Shahnameh. This edition: tr. Dick Davis (2016) Penguin Books
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By the element of fire all that is imperfect is destroyed…
Arthur Edward Waite (ed) 1897, Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelcus, Vol 1. James Elliot &CoFrom: Paracelsus (1525 ) The Coelum Philosophorum. Johann Grüninger
Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons…
Sources: NASA Website, Encyclopaedia Britannica, BBC
The inter-war “Little Magazines” supplied the matrix…
Bennet, D.(1989) Periodical Fragments and Organic Culture: Modernism, The Avant-Garde, and the Little Magazine. (Contemporary Literature 30, no. 4) University of Wisconsin Press
The 18th-century English biographer James Granger…
Smyth, A (2024) The Book Makers – A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives. The Bodley Head
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Therefore it is necessary at this point to know what is the mean in this Art…
Plato’s Republic Book 1 –
Somewhere in Bulgaria the truck stopped at a disused filling station…
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During Henry the VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries…
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One of the few coloured images of the dodo…
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Zakariyya Qazwini (1203-1283) completed his most famous work…
Sources: Zadeh, T. (2023) Wonders and Rarities – The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos. – Harvard University Press
Carboni, S. (2015) The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting: A Study of the Ilkhanid ‘London Qazwini. (Edinburgh University Press
The naturalism of seventeenth-century art is inextricably…
Martin, J.R. (1977) The Transcendental View of Reality and The Allegorical Tradition. (Chapter 4) Routledge
Emblems’ originated as a humanistic attempt…
Sources: Alciati, A. (1531) Emblematum liber. (This ed. 2004) Tr. Ed. John Moffitt and:
Szönyi, G. E. (2025) The ‘Emblematic’ as a Way of Thinking and Seeing in Renaissance Culture. University of Szeged
<The Iconologia> is an illustrated dictionary…
composite text:/author inc. – Cesare Ripa (1593) The Iconologia (2nd Ed.) Pietro Paulo Tozzi
(Illustrated English edition, London 1709) Benj. Motte
…with the fragmentation of the phenomenal world in Baroque allegory…
Weber, S . (1989) Theatre, Technics and Writing (on Walter Benjamin) Fordham University Press
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Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre…
Milton, J. (1667 Orig Publication) Paradise Lost. (2003) Penguin Classics
The Foundation For Economic Education in the United States puts the number of bank robberies…
https://fee.org/ conservative think tank Founded in 1946 in New York City
I had never met my mothers parents but here they stood…
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The disparate objects whose images Warburg collected for the panels of his Atlas…
Michaud, P. (1998) Aby Warburg and The Image in Motion. Zone Books
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Rorschach never intended the ink blots to be used as a general personality test…
What’s Behind the Rorschach Inkblot Test?”. BBC News Magazine. 24 july 2012.
Long and thin objects include pencils, bottles, chopsticks
A Beginner’s Guide to Basic Japanese Counters Go! Go ! Nihon 2020
Warburg’s Mnemosyne panels function as screens
Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: Various sources inc. – The Warburg Institute and:
Michaud, P. (1998) Aby Warburg and The Image in Motion. Zone Books
“Cannon” is most frequently found used in the sense of “a large gun
Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary
Paul Flowers, once chairman of the Co-Operative Bank…
Source: The Crystal Methodist (Financial Times April 4 2014)
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The Babylonians created the first known map of “the world”…
composite text:/author and: Encyclopaedia Britannica
the filmmaker describes the history of cinema as…
Manoel de Oliveira (1999) quoted in Cahiers Du Cinema
Alone in the lab Martha liked to carry out small experiments…
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the early heroic period of ballooning, between 1783 and 1800…
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Holmes, R. (2009) Age of Wonder – How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. Harper Collins
Almost all current navigational charts are constructed…
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The 17th century was marked by Galileo’s discovery…
Listri, M. (2022 ) Cabinet of Curiosities. Taschen
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Later she took another filter paper…
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from some points of view it doesn’t matter whether…
Dawkins, R. (2006) The Selfish Gene – Oxford Landmark Science.
Quoted in the Cambridge online dictionary Corpus for the word ‘Fragment”
Warburg called his Mnemosyne Atlas a ghost story for adults.
Lindsley, Phoebe, F. (2015) Ghost Stories for All Adults: Mapping Time and Space in Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas
University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art),
Michelangelo, then 30 years old, had been commissioned…
composite text and: Jonathan Jones The Guardian, Wed 27 Apr 2005
A glitch provides a hiatus in the stream…
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Almost all current navigational charts are…
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The earliest European encyclopedic work to have survived into modern times…
various sources/author
every few months I would receive an envelope through the post – addressed to me by name…
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As we approached the buildings we began to see that they looked built for a race of giants…
Parker, A. (2019) Silvertown Pure Land Press
Once over the Gobi desert, we flew over…
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The Uffizi Gallery was itself created as a cabinet of curiosities…
Listri, M. (2022 ) Cabinet of Curiosities. Taschen
The Ulam spiral, or prime spiral, is a graphical depiction…
Sources:. Unversity of Exeter: https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/ulam.htm
Dr Richard Christian – Creator of the coding for the image represented here
Archaeological evidence suggests that the population was able to escape
Notes on the Akrotiri archaeological site in Crete (Author)
Elsewhere, however, the dominant impression is of a piecemeal,
Chambers Dictionary corpus under the word “fragment”
We set off towards the buildings over a ground of …
Parker, A. (2019) Silvertown Pure Land Press
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Representation is not the act of producing a visible form…
Rancière, Prof. J. (Reprint edition 2011) The Emancipated Spectator. Verso
We began to realise that some of the farmworkers, many of whom…
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Kordylewski’s Clouds were first observed by the astronomer in 1961…
Massey, R . (2018) Royal Astronomical Society website
An image is not the duplicate of a thing. It is a complex set…
Rancière, Prof. J. (Reprint edition 2011) The Emancipated Spectator. Verso
Many years previously the landowner had dreamed, rather sketchily it seemed…
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The Cambridge Dictionary team chose “hallucinate” as its Word of the Year for 2023…
The Cambridge Dictionary quoted in the Guardian (2023)
Only during such a time as this…
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We have the Idea of the World…
Lyotard, J -F. (English edition 1984) What is the Post-Modern? Manchester University Press
Sudden changes in cosmic rays recorded by Voyager 1…
various sources/author
Sefir smoked a cigarette leaning on the doorframe of the car…
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Both Maier’s emblematic program and Diderot’s comment are in harmony with the ancient desire of humankind to represent by means of mixed media such complex phenomena that could not be successfully evoked by a single sign-system.
Praz also quotes Schopenhauer’s more sober 19th-century definition of the emblem, which not only deals with the effects of emblems but refers to its generic family, too:
The name of “emblems” is usually given to simple allegorical designs accompanied by an explanatory motto and destined to teach in an intuitive form a moral truth. [. . .] They form a transition to poetical allegory. [. . .] Since in poetical allegory a datum always results in a concept which one tries to make apprehensible by intuition through an image, one can well allow that a painted figure may sometimes be introduced either to accompany or support the expression; but such an image should not be considered as a work of representational art, but rather as a hieroglyphic sign.