Fibre, Circuits and Chipped Paint

Images for the textile fetishist and historical appreciator . 27

[house-of-neptune]

17th century needle lace.

[infected]

Sainte-Chapelle de Paris, France, photo by Adrianjing

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Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916), Interior. Artificial Light, 1909. Oil on canvas, 69 x 92.2 cm.

[yama-bato]

Stillness Print Release - Monty Kaplan - The Cool Hunter

[speciesbarocus]

Giovanni Migliara - Frati in cucina (1827).

[seasons-in-hell]

Victor Hugo

The Casquets Lighthouse (1866)

[mustafacamurcu]

Nancy Fouts

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Dolce & Gabbana A/W 2014-15

[dadalux]

Welder Wings

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Khaos Diktator

[twirld]

Portrait of a lady (detail, 1629) Nicolaes Eliasz

[soft-black-velvet]

Our Lady of Sorrows -

On sale. Send me a message here on tumblr for any info.

[lionofchaeronea]

Still Life with Lighted Candle, Pieter Claesz, 1627

[m1male2]

The house of the Frutteto or the Floral Cubicles, Pompeii owes its name to the pictorial decoration that shows trees and fruits that adorn some of the rooms. They are paintings of extreme freshness and refined elegance.

[votedami]

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

[evilscum-deactivated20160223]

his name is Ibn Khaldun

[imaanhammaam-deactivated2016031]

Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

[afghanmenace]

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history

[guluna]

I reblog this post every time I see it

[kyraneko]

We fucking replaced a Muslim scientist with an apple?

[deliriumcrow]

In the middle ages, THE place to go for an education was the middle East, or, failing that, Spain. The Muslim world didn’t have the same limits placed on scientific inquiry that the Christian world did, and since they were willing to look at more than just Aristotole and actually compare texts to the observable world, they had some incredible scientific and mathematical advancements. And street lights and toilets. I mean theories and algebra are great and all, but street lights and toilets. In the 12th century. Also medical advancements, and fewer rules against women studying. Hell, women *should* be the ones studying the female body, would you rather a woman see your female relatives, or some old man? Would you rather have someone who lives in the same kind of body, or one who has no first hand idea what the parts can do?

[mdmshakespeare]

Europeans erased centuries of knowledge from the East because of fear. When we “rediscovered” it, we were still too egotistical to admit that non-whites could have been smarter, so we invented our own mythology.

Bring credit back where it’s due. Honor the true pioneers.

[rumaan]

Also the world’s oldest continuous existing university was established by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, in 859 AD (244/5 AH) in Fez, Morocco.

[tricycle-jaune]

There is also a man called Jâbir Ibn Hâyan (or also called Geber) who has written books and taught on material transformation processes (distillation, combustion, fixation etc …) which later led to what Westerners more commonly called alchemy (from the Greek word “kimiya” and the Arabic prefix “al”, it can also be found in “algebra” or “algorithm”)

[amuseoffyre]

Never forget that the charting of the stars done by Ulug Beg, the ruler of the Timurid dynasty, in the 1400s was used by scholars in Europe up until the 19th century. The ruined remains of his observatory can still be visited in Samarkand. It looked like this:

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Flowers of the Field Rev C A Johns London SPCK 1889 twenty sixth edition

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