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  • Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe | Eric Whitacre

    Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe | Eric Whitacre

    Eric Whitacre’s “Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe” is a unique film, contemplative, visual and musical experience inspired by one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time: the Hubble Telescope’s Deep Field image.

  • “Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis

    “Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis

    ATLANTIS THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE TO THE MYTH OF ATLANTIS One vital classical source for the Atlantis legendand its remembrance, is from two dialogues writtenby Plato, in Timaeus and Critias.It is described as an island in the Atlantic Ocean.In Timaeus and Critias, Solon, an Athenian andprominent statesman c. 6th c. BCE, described theisland as a country bigger…