The book of curiosities (Islamic typography from medieval period)
Above the text is Islamic typography from the medieval period, and there is one very interesting thing about it. This figure is claimed to portray some harbors or something like that, but in fact, it seems like a bacillus. When we are thinking about the paintings and other kinds of art, there could be a difference between things, what artist claim to portray, and then the thing, what the painting or in this case, typography really portraits.
The thing is the microscope was invented by Robert Hooke in the 17th century is not true. Hooke published the orders on how to prepare the sample, but the microscope itself has been known for a long time ago. And the thing is that if this figure is actually the bacillus, it would be the plague bacillus, one of the most deadly organisms on earth. When we are thinking about the well-known inventions like microscopes there is the possibility, that some of them were actually the things, what are called as the top secret.
And maybe some Islamic leaders would keep this kind of information out of the eyes of the ordinary people. The epidemics have been a good way to control people because the existence of those microbes was not probably commonly known thing. And the plague or some other epidemics would be explained as the hate of God, what caused that the people were not enough concerning the service of the god, and leave thoughts to the leaders. It was the spirit of the medieval period.
In medieval society, the purpose of the people was to serve the god, who was represented by the local leader. The things were not different in the Islamic and European side. And if there were too much free time in the area, people would start to ask, why somebody would not do a thing? And in those cases, the artificial epidemic was probably the best way to turn the eyes of the people in another turn from the palace of a local leader.
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Above the text is Islamic typography from the medieval period, and there is one very interesting thing about it. This figure is claimed to portray some harbors or something like that, but in fact, it seems like a bacillus. When we are thinking about the paintings and other kinds of art, there could be a difference between things, what artist claim to portray, and then the thing, what the painting or in this case, typography really portraits.
The thing is the microscope was invented by Robert Hooke in the 17th century is not true. Hooke published the orders on how to prepare the sample, but the microscope itself has been known for a long time ago. And the thing is that if this figure is actually the bacillus, it would be the plague bacillus, one of the most deadly organisms on earth. When we are thinking about the well-known inventions like microscopes there is the possibility, that some of them were actually the things, what are called as the top secret.
And maybe some Islamic leaders would keep this kind of information out of the eyes of the ordinary people. The epidemics have been a good way to control people because the existence of those microbes was not probably commonly known thing. And the plague or some other epidemics would be explained as the hate of God, what caused that the people were not enough concerning the service of the god, and leave thoughts to the leaders. It was the spirit of the medieval period.
In medieval society, the purpose of the people was to serve the god, who was represented by the local leader. The things were not different in the Islamic and European side. And if there were too much free time in the area, people would start to ask, why somebody would not do a thing? And in those cases, the artificial epidemic was probably the best way to turn the eyes of the people in another turn from the palace of a local leader.
Picture I
http://muslimheritage.com/article/book-curiosities-or-medieval-islamic-view-cosmos
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