<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">can we have the Greek columns under a starry sky, linking ancient Greece with their knowledge of astronomy and also 2009 international year of astronomy. --- On Sat, 7/2/09, fedora-art-list-request@redhat.com <fedora-art-list-request@redhat.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: fedora-art-list-request@redhat.com <fedora-art-list-request@redhat.com> Subject: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7 To: fedora-art-list@redhat.com Received: Saturday, 7 February, 2009, 3:16 AM <pre>Send Fedora-art-list mailing list submissions to fedora-art-list@redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to fedora-art-list-request@redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at fedora-art-list-owner@redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Fedora-art-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism (Olga Segou) 2. Re: Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism (Frank Murphy) 3. Re: Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism (Nicu Buculei) 4. Fedora Bangladesh Logo (Ashiqur Rahman Angel) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:24:16 +0200 From: Olga Segou <osegou@gmail.com> Subject: Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism To: fedora-art-list@redhat.com Message-ID: <5acb2cdd0902051124k2d175bfbgac053d02949a16c5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello from Greece! I would like to recommend the Antikythera Mechanism as a possible theme for artwork... What is so great about the Antikythera Mechanism? * It fits within nautical and greek themes (as it is a navigation device built in Greece) * It is the first mechanical computer, a device ahead of its time Find out more, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism a small quote from wikipedia: " The *Antikythera mechanism* (IPA: [ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA>, an-ti-ki-*theer*-uh), is an ancient mechanical calculator<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator>(also described as the first known mechanical computer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer>[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-0> [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-Washington_Post-1>) designed to calculate astronomical <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy>positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_wreck> off the Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece>island of Antikythera <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera>, between Kythera<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kythera>and Crete <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete>, in 1901. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC; and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes> to Rome. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-2> Jacques-Yves Cousteau <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Yves_Cousteau>visited the wreck for the last time in 1978, [4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-3> but found no more remains of the Antikythera Mechanism. Professor Michael Edmunds of Cardiff University who led the study of the mechanism said: "This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully." He added: "...in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa> ."[5] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-4>[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism#cite_note-Guardian-5> The device is displayed in the Bronze Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Athens>, accompanied by a reconstruction made and offered to the museum by Derek de Solla Price <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price>. Other reconstructions are on display at the American Computer Museum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Computer_Museum>in Bozeman, Montana <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozeman,_Montana> and the Children's Museum of Manhattan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Museum_of_Manhattan>in New York. " Best regards, Olga Segou. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/attachments/20090205/5492b146/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:34:25 +0000 From: Frank Murphy <frankly3d@fedoraproject.org> Subject: Re: Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism To: Fedora Art List <fedora-art-list@redhat.com> Message-ID: <498BE801.8080707@fedoraproject.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Olga Segou wrote: > Hello from Greece! > > I would like to recommend the Antikythera Mechanism as a possible theme > for artwork... What is so great about the Antikythera Mechanism? > > * It fits within nautical and greek themes (as it is a navigation device > built in Greece) > * It is the first mechanical computer, a device ahead of its time > The problem I see here is, without the explanation most users will just see a geometrical shape and go, huh! As there will be no text on the graphics. Whereas the columns can be recognised as classical. Frank ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:50:46 +0200 From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro> Subject: Re: Fedora 11 & The Antikythera Mechanism To: Fedora Art List <fedora-art-list@redhat.com> Message-ID: <498BF9E6.7020408@nicubunu.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Frank Murphy wrote: > Olga Segou wrote: >> I would like to recommend the Antikythera Mechanism as a possible theme >> for artwork... What is so great about the Antikythera Mechanism? >> >> * It fits within nautical and greek themes (as it is a navigation device >> built in Greece) >> * It is the first mechanical computer, a device ahead of its time > > The problem I see here is, without the explanation > most users will just see a geometrical shape and go, huh! > As there will be no text on the graphics. Methinks that people seeing the Antikythera Mechanism would go like "so they got back to the steampunk theme they scrapped for F10?" > Whereas the columns can be recognised as classical. I think so, the columns are easier to recognize. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:13:16 +0600 From: Ashiqur Rahman Angel <angel@linux.org.bd> Subject: Fedora Bangladesh Logo To: fedora-art-list@redhat.com Message-ID: <bfbed7f10902060013r31669034s377de372b4565a3b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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