Mathematisch concept van Leonardo da Vinci ligt ten grondslag aan de montage van deze beeldschone film waarin Darwin en de Galapagos elkaar ontmoeten.
700 shots van elk 29 beeldjes, die heen en weer schieten tussen Darwins boek A Voyage of the Beagle (1845) en beelden die verzameld zijn tijdens een recente reis naar Galapagos. Ruimte en tijd, woord en beeld, dier en landschap, gemonteerd conform instructie nr. 918 van Leonardo da Vinci.
PROGRAMMER NOTES
[from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. 1]
Of time and its divisions (916-918).
916.
Although time is included in the class of Continuous Quantities, being indivisible and immaterial, it does not come entirely under the head of Geometry, which represents its divisions by means of figures and bodies of infinite variety, such as are seen to be continuous in their visible and material properties. But only with its first principles does it agree, that is with the Point and the Line; the point may be compared to an instant of time, and the line may be likened to the length of a certain quantity of time, and just as a line begins and terminates in a point, so such a space of time begins and terminates in an instant. And whereas a line is infinitely divisible, the divisibility of a space of time is of the same nature; and as the divisions of the line may bear a certain proportion to each other, so may the divisions of time.
917.
Describe the nature of Time as distinguished from the Geometrical definitions.
918.
Divide an hour into 3000 equal parts.