about the world is available here — at least if you’re running Java. Before Java there was, of course, no way for man to understand his place in the Universe.
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Celluloid was of course the real dawning of Man’s Place In The Universe, with the original Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames (mentioned in the link above). I remember it well from my schooldays… although perhaps not that well, as I thought there was a scene with a boy on a rowing boat, a mosquito sucking blood out of the back of his hand and the film zooming in on the red corpuscles in the mozzie’s mouthparts.
Looking at the stills from http://www.powersof10.com, there is no such scene.
The real question is: while pre-Java man might be able to understand his proper place, what about pre Java Man?
Splendid party, btw. I envy Rosie — the best adult attendees I ever got as a child were an occasional Westward TV presenter (later drummed out of the service due booze) and a bishop.
R