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Oroboros picture of the month

Jade Ouroboros, Shang Dynasty, by Mountain at Shanghai Museum

Dr. Vyacheslav Kalchenko, who sent the picture of the Jade Ouroboros, Shang Dynasty, by Mountain at Shanghai Museum (right)

brought the following reference to the attention of Bioblast: Mahdihassan 1989 Am J Chin Med

It compares the Yin-Yang, the Chinese symbol of creation, with the Ouroboros in the Greek alchemy

Published in Am J Chin Med 17:95-8 by Mahdihassan S in 1989

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-[[File:AlexanderVonHumboldt.jpg|200px|Oroboros of the month]]
+[[File:Mountain at Shanghai Museum.jpg|200px|Oroboros of the month]]
-| ''' Ouroboros and Alexander von Humboldt '''
+| ''' Jade Ouroboros, Shang Dynasty, by Mountain at Shanghai Museum '''
-From: Olaf Breidbach (2006) "Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel". Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, page 52.
+:Dr. Vyacheslav Kalchenko, who sent the picture of the Jade Ouroboros, Shang Dynasty, by Mountain at Shanghai Museum (right)
+:brought the following reference to the attention of Bioblast: '''[[Mahdihassan 1989 Am J Chin Med]] '''
-Alexander von Humboldt thought an approach to science was needed that could account for the harmony of nature among the diversity of the physical world.
+:It compares the Yin-Yang, the Chinese symbol of creation, with the Ouroboros in the Greek alchemy
+:Published in ''Am J Chin Med 17:95-8'' by [[Mahdihassan S]] in 1989
-For Humboldt, "the unity of nature" meant that it was the interrelation of all physical sciences—such as the conjoining between biology, meteorology and geology—that determined where specific plants grew.
-He found these relationships by unravelling myriad, painstakingly collected data
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