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Verschiedene Systeme von Relationen, in die der Mensch eingestellt ist, Kosmisch, irdisch, genealogisch. Ineinssetzung aller dieser Relationen im magischen Denken, denn Sonderung von Abstammung, Geburtsort und kosmischer Situation setzt schon eine Denkleistung voraus. 1) Orientierung; 2) Austausch; 3) Soziale Einordnung

Man’s different relationships with the systems of which he is part: cosmic, terrestrial and genealogical. The correlation of all these relationships on magic thought: distinguishing descendence, place of birth and cosmic influence already presupposes the act of thinking.
1) Orientation 2) Exchange 3) Position in the social order
[notes by Gertrud Bing from Warburg’s original papers, 1929]

Incipit Mnemosyne

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Different relationships between man and the world are represented by cosmic, earthly and genealogical images. The images are visual representations of these relationships and are configured as “acts of thought”, intellectual projections that interpret reality in accordance with dynamic coordinates of orientation (the stars), exchange (between the West and the Mediterranean) and social order (the Tornabuoni family).

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Coordinates of the Memory: Man and the Cosmos
(the Tornabuoni family, Leonardo da Vinci, the Zeppelin)

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