Tag: University of Pennsylvania

April 18, 2022

Tarot Card Art Is a Visual Timeline of Cultural Mysticism | 34th Street Magazine

In tarot, interpretation derives from the visual symbolism, from the number of yellow drops underneath The Moon card in the 18th century to the fishnet and sneakers in The Hanged One of Lisa Sterel’s 2020 deck, The Modern Witch. Surprisingly, this intricate artistic system of analysis didn’t originate with mystical intention, but with simply the drawings on playing cards. Read more: Tarot...

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April 5, 2021

University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 226 – Certain astrological… (Video Orientation) – YouTube

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 226 – Certain astrological and astronomical figures: cut out of a manuscript book dated 1410. England and Spain, ca. 1410. Summary: In Latin. Collection of astrological and astronomical diagrams gathered from 3 earlier manuscripts. After a later parchment bifolium (f. 1-2, with inscription dated 1861 and 18th- or 19th-century English title)...

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September 26, 2016

Animal Entrails and Light-Bulb Moments

Animal Entrails and Light-Bulb Moments Most of us have had a great idea pop up out of nowhere, often when we were not actively thinking about the subject at all—maybe on a walk or after a nap. Or we’ll have a hunch that turns out to be true. Peter Struck, the Evan C Thompson Professor of Excellence in Teaching in...

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