OCS Imagery - Visual Impressions of Observations


	This section of the OCS Visual Library contains visual impressions of observations of actual objects, phenomena and events recorded by Adolf Schaller, ranging from optical and perceptual illusions of "Inner Space" to the external environment of Nature - the earthly and astronomical subjects of "Outer Space".

"Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye....we put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please."

Pliny the Younger [A.D. 61-105]

"Letters, Book VIII, Letter 20, I

(Translated by William Melmoth, 1746)

"A lover of Nature responds to her phenomena as naturally as he breathes and lives, driven by a deep innate force...Each moment he is struck by new and interesting occurrences, eyes and ears alert, sensitive to the subtle influences that surround him...a human being supremely conscious of the fullness of life. It is indeed wrong to think that the poetry of Nature's moods in all their infinite variety is lost on one who observes them scientifically, for the habit of observation refines our sense of beauty and adds a brighter hue to the richly coloured background against which each separate fact is outlined. The connection between events, the relation of cause and effect in different parts of a landscape, unite harmoniously what would otherwise be merely a series of detached scenes...if only you will touch your eyes with the magic wand of 'knowing what to see'..."

M. Minnaert

from "The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air", 1954

(Translated by H.M.Kremer-Priest)

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