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“I Reunite Architecture and Perspective”: Hirschvogel’s *Geometria* (1543)

One theory about wormholes — those speculative cosmological structures that tunnel between distant points in the universe — holds that spacetime can be folded like a piece of paper, bringing the near and far into proximity.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s-geometria-1543/

Online version:
https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/8077/1?tx_dlf%5Bpagegrid%5D=1&cHash=b4db56391c1bb332830d76c2e3d08615

Geometria (1543) by Augustin Hirschvogel “The Book of Geometry is my name. / All liberal Arts were originally derived from me. / I reunite Architecture and Perspective”. https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/hirschvogel-s-geometria-1543/geom_267905858.jpg?fit=max&w=1200&h=850&auto=format,compress

The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.

This modern photograph shows part of Manoel Island in Malta’s Marsamxett Harbour. During the war it was used as a base by the Royal Navy's 10th Submarine Flotilla and the island is visited several times by the book’s central characters.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/eoh/index.html

This modern image shows part of Manoel Island in Marsamxett Harbour, Malta. A light stone quayside reaches into the frame from the left, extending to the centre of the image. On the quayside are long three-storey stone buildings, fenced off and partly scaffolded. The blue water of the harbour is in the foreground and on the right and Valletta can be seen stretching across the centre of the frame in the distance. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.

🎉 In our 2022–2023 funding cycle, the Open Access Book Fund supported 47 open access books!

We’re celebrating by highlighting them all. Today:
📘 Technics: Media in the Digital Age
🔗 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048564552/technics

We're also happy to share that this book has received the Runner-up for Best Edited Volume from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. 🏆
🔗 https://www.baftss.org/winners-pub-2025.html

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Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children

Early readers knew Moby-Dick for what it was: an extreme and ambitious form of popular genre fiction.

By Edward Sugden

https://theconversation.com/moby-dick-doesnt-deserve-the-difficult-label-this-sea-romance-was-once-loved-by-office-workers-sailors-and-children-252764?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%203%202025%20-%203399134654&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%203%202025%20-%203399134654+CID_883bf765c02875a3531f2b057c9fd507&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Moby-Dick%20doesnt%20deserve%20the%20difficult%20label%20%20this%20sea%20romance%20was%20once%20loved%20by%20office%20workers%20sailors%20and%20children

Moby Dick at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick in a 1902 edition. The scene is dramatic and chaotic, set against a stormy sea. At the center is Captain Ahab, standing defiantly on the deck of the whaleboat or leaning forward with harpoon raised, his face twisted with obsession and fury. The great white whale, Moby-Dick, dominates the composition—immense, ghostly pale, and terrifying, thrashing violently as it breaches the ocean surface. Ahab’s ship, the Pequod, is shown in the distance or beginning to sink, impaled or struck by the whale’s massive bulk. I. W. Taber - Moby Dick - edition: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#/media/File:Moby_Dick_final_chase.jpg

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows Dunrobin Castle railway station in Sutherland. It was built as a private station for Dunrobin Castle in 1902. It plays a background role as the story builds towards its climax.

Find out more on our website:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-ets/index.html

Dunrobin Castle Station. The image shows a corner view of a black and white half-timbered chalet style building with a sheltered area to its front, or our left. There is a tarmac-covered area in front of it and a grassy area to its sides and behind, and leafless trees in the background. A sign in the bottom right of the frame says Dunrobin Castle in white on black. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.