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  "thread": {
    "id": 4178,
    "subject": "Father Leonardo's Mirrors",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2003-08-20T02:21:00+00:00",
    "last": "2003-08-20T02:21:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0308-3965@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2003-08-20T02:21:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Father Leonardo's Mirrors",
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          "text": "I have this book entitled 'The Labyrinth - Symbol Of Fear, Rebirth And\nLiberation', Shambhala 1997, ISBN 1-57062-195-0. It is not, in my\nopinion, a great book. It is translated from the German of Helmut\nJaskolski, a modern pedagogue who lives near Cologne. It has a lot of\nnice pictures. and although I cannot say much that is true and\nkind about Herr Prof Dr Jaskolski's understanding of his complex and \nancient subject, on page 87, apropos of not much, we find the \nfollowing:\n\nAn invention of Leonardo Da Vinci, which he sketched with a pen under \nthe heading \"mirror\"... He was not yet technically capable of realizing\nthis invention [no evidence is adduced to back up this, in my opinion\nprobably false, statement - JG], but his explanation of it was as\nfollows: \"If you make eight flat surfaces, each one two cubits long and\nthree cubits high..., and arrange them in a circle so that they form an\noctagon with a circumference of sixteen cubits and a diameter of five\ncubits, then a man inside can see himself infinitely from all sides.\"\n\nLeonardo's drawing is reproduced on page 88.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n."
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