The Empty Chair:
Two Notes from the Journal of Steven H. Cullinane

Wednesday August 30, 2006

 m759 @ 10:07 AM
The Seventh Symbol:

A Multicultural Farewell

to a winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature,
the Egyptian author of
The Seventh Heaven:
Supernatural Stories –

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“Doctor Jackson has identified
the seventh symbol.”
– Stargate

Other versions of
the seventh symbol –

Chinese version:

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pictorial version:

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algebraic version:

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“… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and others have pointed out how ‘perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and perhaps without the metaphor there would never have been any algebra’ ….”

– Max Black, Models and Metaphors, Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors, by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press, paperback, 1975, page 25

Sunday September 10, 2006

m759 @ 4:00 AM

And the
“Meet Max Black“
Award goes to…

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“For the Aeron and other designs,
Mr. Stumpf won this year’s
National Design Award
in Product Design,
which is to be presented
posthumously on Oct. 18
by the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum
in Manhattan.”

– Today’s New York Times

Stumpf died on August 30,
the date of the Log24 entry
“The Seventh Symbol.”

Related material:

From
Geometry of the I Ching,
a chessboard:

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From the
 National Design Museum:

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 From Log24 on the
date of Stumpf’s death,

The Seventh Symbol:

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Pictorial version of
Hexagram 20,
Contemplation (View)

See also
Fearful Symmetry
and
Symmetry Framed.