Magic Transistor

Roy Lichtenstein. Female Nude. 1962.

The Sleeping Lady of Hal Saflieni, Malta, 4100–2500 BC.

Chalandriani figurine (Early Aegean), Cyclades, Greece, ca. 2300–2000 B.C.

Andreas Feininger, Standing Nude (Gelatin silver print), c. 1934.

Queen of the Night (The Burney Relief); Mesopotamian terracotta plaque from Southern Iraq, dated between 1800 and 1750 BCE.

Cadavre Exquis with André Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy, Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert. Figure. 1928.

Cadavre Exquis. André Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy, Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert. Figure. 1928.

Camera Obscura.

Figure 24.

Anonymous. Hand of Buddha. 15th century. 

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, Female figure with pendulous breasts, short arms, standing on hind legs with a similar smaller figure on her back (1585).

Eagle Kachina (Hopi peoples), Hotevilla, Arizona. Nd.

Josef Sudek, Morning Tram, 1924.

Designs and figures for astrolabes alongside a nautical sextant (with Blish prism attached), essentially, the device is a prism that diverts light rays through 180 degrees so that the horizon directly behind the observer can be viewed at the same time as the horizon in front and the amount of dip read out directly from the sextant’s scale. Inventors devised numerous instruments or attachments to do the same thing. Among the more complex dedicated instruments was one patented by Boris Gavrisheff in 1961 (US Patent number 2,981,143). A telescope views via two prisms light coming from one horizon behind the observer at the same time as the light from the horizon in front of the observer. One of the prisms is rotatable so that the deviation from 180 degrees, i.e. the dip, can be directly read off a micrometer drum. [Terra incognita]

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