World
Culture in one image
This image was launched inside by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) inside the American Pioneer Spacecraft in 1972 communicating what
we are/were to the denizens of Deep Space.
See Ernst
Gombrich's essay "The Visual Image", in The Image and
the Eye , Phaidon, Oxford 1982, p.151 for a critical reading
of the diagrams' absurdities.
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