Nude with globe,c.1919 by C.W.Gilhousen
from akubizone via MisfitSiren
Every now and then, I have this recollection of the beauty of it all…
Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus. — Sylvanus P. Thompson
I took this as summer reading last year. Without it, my transition from literary man to equation-wielding madman would quite simply have been a disaster.
L’illumination, déception foudroyante, dispense une certitude qui transforme le détrompé en délivré.
Emil Cioran
Human spinal nerve. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of section through a human spinal nerve. The nerve is composed of numerous bundles of myelinated axons. In the centre is a blood vessel filled with red blood cells. The human body contains 31 paired spinal nerves. These branch from the main spinal cord and pass out of the vertebrae to carry information to the rest of the body.
