This IS NOT A Stone (#56)

An illustration of Matthus Merian in the seventeenth-century book Utriusque Cosmi Majoris Historia by German scientist Robert Fludd, shows how people thought about it at the time.

In this drawing the hand of God leads a naked woman - the symbol of nature - on a chain. In turn, the woman leads a chained monkey.

Moral: art copies the nature created and controlled by God.

But that is not always the case. After all, nature can be partially tempered, organized and transformed into culture.

And it is that capability that stimulates man.

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