The alpha path
(plates A, B, C)

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

plate A	plate B	plate C

The opening of Mnemosyne shows ‘in figura’ the cultural, geographical and historical scope of the whole Atlas: the oscillation between the polarities of magic and mathematics in the Western cultural tradition from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe.
Every picture that appears in the three plates is symptomatic of a particular declension in the relationship between man and the cosmos, from astrological superstition to the technological conquest of the heavens.

» ITER PER LABYRINTHUM:

alpha path
» I path
» II path
» III path
» IV path
» V path
» VI path
» VII path
» VIII path
» IX path
» X path
»XI path
» XII path
» omega path