1275 BCE

The Book of the Dead

One feather, one heart—truth decides eternity.

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1703 CE

Leibniz's I Ching Hexagrams

Sixty‑four ways the one splits into two.

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1705 CE

The Blue Morpho (Morpho menelaus)

Mud to wing, brown to iridescent blue.

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1837 CE

Tree of Life

“I think…”—and a universe of kinship branches out.

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1953 CE

The Double Helix

Life written in mirrored pairs.

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Time Jump Coil
72 year gap
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