We’ll begin our tour in the 1300s with one of the first known examples of a movable book, that is a book having moving or mechanical parts other than how the pages and cover pivot about the spine. This is a volvelle from Ramón Llull’s Ars Magna (The Great Art), c. 1305. It’s a divination and contemplation tool; each position in each ring has a different meaning, and you can create various combinations of meanings by rotating the two inner rings.
Hi HyperRitual,
excellent presentation so far. I think that the figure from Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda’s Encyclopaedia Mythologica volume, Dragons & Monsters, is the Medusa and not the Sphinx. I’m not 100% certain about this, but I can deduct it from her snakey hair.
Keep up with the great work,
Plethon.
Hi, Nick. Thanks for taking time to check out my work. Look at the lower-right corner of the book; that is the transition I am referring to in the speech/text. :-)
Right, I get it now, thank you for pointing it out. I have finished watching the slide show and I find it brilliant. It does motivate to go out and start doing, creating, interacting… Please produce more work like this, we’re so thirsty for this kind of quality.
Cheers, man!