{"id":11869,"date":"2013-04-04T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T04:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11869"},"modified":"2013-04-05T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:06:22","slug":"cosmic-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11869","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Ray and Charles Eames.  In the world of design they were perhaps the ultimate power couple, originating one ingenious idea after another.  The <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eames_Lounge_Chair target=1>Eames Chair<\/a> has deservedly become an icon of modernist design.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, their 1961 interactive museum exhibit <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematica:_A_World_of_Numbers..._and_Beyond target=1>Mathematica: A World of Numbers &#8230; and Beyond<\/a> is the best advertisement for the sheer delight of mathematics this side of <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Vihart target=1>Vi Hart&#8217;s videos<\/a> &#8212; and a very high bar for the <a href=http:\/\/momath.org target=1>Museum of Mathematics<\/a> to strive for as it continues to mature.<\/p>\n<p>The there is one thing for which they unfairly get too much credit.  Just today a colleague referred to their iconic work <a href=http:\/\/www.powersof10.com\/film target=1>Powers of 10<\/a>, a lovely short film that first zooms out from human scale to the universe, and then zooms in to the atomic world (and which was subsequently released as the book &#8220;Powers of Ten&#8221; by Philip and Phylis Morrison).<\/p>\n<p>I say they get too much credit because the entire concept for this film was borrowed from <a href=http:\/\/www.vendian.org\/mncharity\/cosmicview\/ target=1>Cosmic View<\/a>, a 1957 illustrated essay by <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kees_Boeke target=1>Kees Boeke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly Boeke was a pioneer in many other ways.  For one thing, he originated the concept of a Sociocracy in education.  You could look it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Ray and Charles Eames. In the world of design they were perhaps the ultimate power couple, originating one ingenious idea after another. The Eames Chair has deservedly become an icon of modernist design. Similarly, their 1961 interactive museum exhibit Mathematica: A World of Numbers &#8230; and Beyond is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cosmic View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}