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- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
- Differential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
- Carved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
- Nov 07, 2020
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020