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vespista91 favorited a video
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:) album title: Black Earth (2002)
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Artist: Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
Track: The Admirals Game
Album: Succubus
Label: Ad Noiseam
Genre: Ambient, Jazz
Also check out the Kilimanjaro D...
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Artist: Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
Track: The Admirals Game
Album: Succubus
Label: Ad Noiseam
Genre: Ambient, Jazz
Also check out the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble another great project by some of these musicians.
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Athanasius Kircher (1601 or 1602--1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of orien...
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Athanasius Kircher (1601 or 1602--1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "master of a hundred arts". Kircher was the most famous "decipherer" of hieroglyphs of his day, although most of his assumptions and "translations" in this field have since been disproved as nonsensical. However, he did make an early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, correctly establishing the link between the ancient Egyptian language and the Coptic language, for which he has been considered the founder of Egyptology. He was also fascinated with Sinology, and wrote an encyclopedia of China, in which he noted the early presence of Nestorian Christians but also attempted to establish more tenuous links with Egypt and Christianity. Kircher's work with geology included studies of volcanos and fossils. One of the first people to observe microbes through a microscope, he was thus ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Kircher also displayed a keen interest in technology and mechanical inventions, and inventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone. The invention of the magic lantern is often misattributed to Kircher, although he did conduct a study of the principles involved in his Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. A scientific star in his day, towards the end of his life he was eclipsed by the rationalism of René Descartes and others. In the late 20th century, however, the aesthetic qualities of his work again began to be appreciated. One modern scholar, Alan Cutler, described Kircher as "a giant among seventeenth-century scholars", and "one of the last thinkers who could rightfully claim all knowledge as his domain". Another scholar, Edward W. Schmidt, referred to Kircher as "the last Renaissance man".
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Musica: Arvo Pärt (1935), 'Silentium'.
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'Parvus Mundus' di Von Laurentius Haechtanus (1579), illustrato da Gèrard de Jode (1509 - 1591).
Musica: Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet, 'Sunrise of...
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'Parvus Mundus' di Von Laurentius Haechtanus (1579), illustrato da Gèrard de Jode (1509 - 1591).
Musica: Terry Riley and Kronos Quartet, 'Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector', dall'album 'Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain' (1985).
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