{"id":1906,"date":"2018-01-20T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2018-10-18T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:52:48","slug":"cosmoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Cosmoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"See inside the universe in this stunning light sculpture\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__G6yMeM1-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve learned much in the half-millennium since Leonardo declared Man &#8220;the measure of all things.&#8221;, and seen the human species relegated to a footnote in the cosmological story.<br \/>\nNow we\u2019re beginning to see that humanity maybe does sit at the heart of the universe. At no other scale but ours does the universe attain such complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibited at the London Lumiere festival in January 2018, Simeon Nelson&#8217;s 3.3 metre-high singing, flashing sculpture, is an enormous puzzle in structural engineering, sound and software design. It&#8217;s also a homage to cosmological models of the past, especially Leonardo&#8217;s \u201cVitruvian Man\u201d, drawn around 1490.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2158900-see-inside-the-universe-in-this-stunning-light-sculpture\/\">I interviewed the makers for this video by David Stock.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve learned much in the half-millennium since Leonardo declared Man &#8220;the measure of all things.&#8221;, and seen the human species relegated to a footnote in the cosmological story. Now we\u2019re beginning to see that humanity maybe does sit at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1906\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[616,78,91],"tags":[388,232,458],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-reviews-and-opinion","category-simons-films","tag-cosmology","tag-new-scientist","tag-sound-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}