Why does labradorite flash blue?
A stone’s changing colour begins with a structure too small to see.
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Plants, minerals, the night sky and the meanings we give them. An independent journal of natural history and celestial culture.
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STONES / PLANTS / SKY
A sky small enough to hold
The astrolabe brings observation, calculation and ornament into one object.
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A way to read divination through its objects, conventions and questions.
Read the editorialThe plant is only half the specimen
A label holds what a dried plant cannot show.
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Where working geometry meets an image of the cosmos.
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Labels, uncertainty and a practical observation worksheet.
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