From The Walker Collection:

GOTHIC MIRROR NINETEENTH

Mirror silver metal resting on an easel, representing a small Gothic style of architecture, nineteenth.

The moon (1609) by Galileo Galilei

Luna and Venus

An abracadabrangle (1726).

The famous abracadabra typographic triangle makes an appearance in Pierre Guarin’s Grammaticae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae, ex optimis quae hactenus prodierunt, nova facilique methodo concinnatae, tomus II (Paris: Typis Jacobi Collombat, 1726-1728).

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

You would have taken my soul spellbound into your embracing arms as into a magic circle.

— FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN ⚜️ Hyperion, transl. by Ross Benjamin, (2008)

“SKULL AND CROSSBONES” ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE // 1983 [gelatin silver print | 38.4 × 38 cm.]