Diagram of the cosmos

before, exactly at that spot are things to add. For 1 affair a much to a greater extent than detailed ikon of the entire Pavement is available here, on the Getty web-site.

The key disk of onyx represents the world, too the ii sets of 4 roundels some it the 4 elements too 4 qualities unified yesteryear love, a symbol of the Great Chain of Being that jump the monarch to the lowliest discipline too the highest angel nether God, as inwards this fifteenth-century text:

"In this order, hot things are inwards harmony alongside cold, dry out alongside moist, heavy alongside light, keen alongside little, high alongside low. In this order, angel is laid upward over angel, rank upon rank inwards the kingdom of heaven; homo is laid upward over man, fauna over beast, aeroplane over aeroplane too fish over fish, on the earth, inwards the air too inwards the sea: then that at that spot is no worm that crawls upon the ground, no aeroplane that flies on high, no fish that swims inwards the depths, which the chain of this guild does non bind inwards the almost harmonious concord. Hell alone, inhabited yesteryear none exactly sinners, asserts its claim to escape the embraces of this order." (Sir John Fortescue, trans. On Nature, 1492.)

There was a Latin inscription to accompany the Pavement which described the historic menstruum of the populace from kickoff to terminate every bit 19,683 years - the lifespan of the macrocosm conceived every bit a living creature. However inaccurate this is inwards price of modern cosmology, it was an displace to brand the Pavement an ikon of the whole of space-time. We lost our "Theory of Everything", too modern scientific discipline has been trying to give-up the ghost it dorsum e'er since.

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