"The place consisted of several attic rooms with the partitions knocked out to make a long low studio, lit and ventilated by a huge window at one end. Under the window were piled up the usual apparatus of a physio-chemical laboratory. Through the studio wound a pebble path, devious as the track of an ornery mule and bordered with shrubs and bushes in pots or in crates, cactus plants, small conifers, dwarf palms, and rhododendrons. Along the path, glued to the window panes or hung on the bushes or dangling from the ceiling, so that all free space was put to maximum use, hundreds of little placards were displayed. Each one carried a drawing, a photograph or an inscription, and the whole constituted a veritable encyclopedia of what we call 'human knowledge'".
"A diagram of a plant cell..."
"Mendeleiff's periodic table of the elements..."
"the keys to chinese writing..."
"a cross section of the human heart..."
"Lorentz's transformation formulae..."
"each planet and it's characteristics..."
"fossil remains of the horse species in series.."
"Mayan heiroglyphics..."
"economic and demographic statistics..."
"musical phrases..."
"samples of the principle plant and animals families..."
"crystal specimens.."
the ground plan of the great pyramid..."
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"brain diagrams..."
"phonetic charts of the sounds employed in all languages, maps, genealogies..."
"everything in short which would fill the brain of a twentieth century Pico della Mirandola"
Source: Floccinaucinihilipilification
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