Another astronomy woodcut, too good to put in the woodchipper
The caption on wikipedia for this woodcut reads as thus, “An engraving by Albrecht Dürer, from the title page of the Masha’allah ibn Atharī’s astronomy treatise De scientia motus orbis (Latin version with engraving, 1504). As in many medieval illustrations, the compass here is an icon of religion as well as science, in reference to God as the architect of creation.”
I look at this woodcut and I see less an icon of religion and science (note: religion and science are two words that should NOT go together), and more so an icon of the rare, I assume non-existent, linkage between cosmology and cosmetology.
We see here, depicted in this woodcut, the unlikely, unprecedented image of an astronomer sitting in the cosmic salon chair of the universe, about to get his hair “did”.
Ahhhh, cosmology and cosmetology meet at last.
Salon Picture of curly-haired woman photocredit: un_cola
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