Musical Spheres & Plato's V-shaped device--Compass

[cathy ramirez]

"...decorated all over with Zodiakal Glyphs..."
M&D.731


Reminded me of Swift's Laputa magnetism. 

"Their outward garments were adorned with the figures
of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of
fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars,
harpsichords, and many other instruments of music,
unknown to us in Europe."


"Those to whom the King had entrusted me, observing
how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next
morning, and take my measure for a suit of clothes.
This operator did his office after a different manner
from
those of his trade in Europe. He first took my height
by a quadrant, and then with a rule and compasses
described the dimensions and outlines of my whole
body, all which he entered upon paper, and in six days
brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of
shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the
calculation. But my comfort was, that I observed such
accidents very frequent, and little regarded."  

Science Books - Magnetism 

Driving Force: The Natural Magic Of Magnets
Livingston, James D.
Published: March 1996
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067421644X


http://book.netstoreusa.com/index/bkbsd800.shtml

The Compass: Shen Kua describes the magnetic device
that changed the world. 


http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schools/what/materials/magnetism/two.html

Preston, James. 1992. Spiritual Magnetism: An
Organizing Principle for the study of Pilgrimage. In
Sacred journeys: The Anthropology of pilgrimage. Alan
Morinis, ed. Westport: Greenwood Press, pp 31-46. 

William Gilbert of Colchester

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm


Black, Joel. "Probing a Post-Romantic Paleontology:
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow."
Boundary 28 (Winter 1980): 229-54.

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