Beauty by the Dozen
We do this partly because we like to, but we also have a hidden agenda. If we wanted to make a new word, we could call it our "chronocentric" agenda. It works like this: A new millennium is sort of a blank slate, a tabula rasa, a thousand years stretching out before us to be filled with human activity. Let's just say that with our little contributions of beauty in issue each we're trying to tip the millennial balance in a more pleasing direction. So, to honor our first year of publication, we thought it would be good to have a small retrospective celebration of beauty. We polled the staff. What, we asked, are the most beautiful images we've published during Year One? Below, gathered in one place, are the top twelve choices.* That they are a strange mix should not surprise you if you've been reading Magellan's Log long. Enjoy: Bosch: Garden of
Earthly Delights (center panel, painting). *Editor's Note: To retain detail, we have reproduced, where available, large versions of the picture. Depending on your Internet connection, you may have to wait a few seconds for a file to load. Depending on the size of your monitor, you may have to scroll up and down, left and right, to see the entire picture. If you want to see in what context we originally used a picture, go to Magellan's Log 1, scroll to the bottom of the page, and use our site search engine.
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