blackheartpress: I SEE A DARKNESSA page out of Robert Fludd’s “Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia” Not sure if he is also the artist who made this beautiful plate, which apparently depicts the primordial darkness, expanding off  the plate into infinity. All those attempts to “break the frame” / “expand the frame”.. The beautiful 1620’s solution:“Et sic in infintum” Further reading: More great illustrations: b/w though, and ~260MB:http://billheidrick.com/Orpd/RFludd/pdf/RFUcmset.pdf(pictured above: pg. 18/657) Fludd in the internet archive: http://archive.org/stream/utriusquecosmima02flud#page/n3/mode/2up (again: 700 pages, bring some snacks. I couldn’t locate the page pictured above, maybe different edition.)Bonnie with the moves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iV4NwSbscg

blackheartpress:

I SEE A DARKNESS

A page out of Robert Fludd’s “Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia” 

Not sure if he is also the artist who made this beautiful plate, which apparently depicts the primordial darkness, expanding off  the plate into infinity. All those attempts to “break the frame” / “expand the frame”.. 
The beautiful 1620’s solution:
“Et sic in infintum”


Further reading:

More great illustrations:
b/w though, and ~260MB:
http://billheidrick.com/Orpd/RFludd/pdf/RFUcmset.pdf
(pictured above: pg. 18/657)

Fludd in the internet archive: http://archive.org/stream/utriusquecosmima02flud#page/n3/mode/2up (again: 700 pages, bring some snacks. I couldn’t locate the page pictured above, maybe different edition.)

Bonnie with the moves: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iV4NwSbscg