271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope. Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. It’s hard not to compare the hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which wouldn’t be published for the first time until 1963. The entire book is viewable in high resolution here, and you can read a description of it here (it appears E-Corpus might have crashed for the moment).
Berry: Twelve Principles The tongue of the largest glacier in Alaska, seen from space (courtesy NASA) Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process 1. The universe, the solar system, and the planet Earth, in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence, constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Carolyn Toben has written: Thomas Berry’s life and works have notably influenced the spiritual and intellectual history of the 20th and early 21st century. What we are experiencing in the degradation of the Earth, is a soul loss, a loss of meaning in life itself that calls for a recovery of a sense of the sacred.
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