The Canon
Folio One: six Canon plates framed in two rows on a pale wall

Folio One

Twenty-nine moments when people discovered a deep piece of the mathematical structure of reality.

The Canon is a series of twenty-nine plates, each computed from the mathematics or real data, never drawn by eye. Folio One is the first six, across 2,500 years, printed to order on cotton rag and baryta.

Folio One

  1. Plate I

    The Diagonal of the Square

    5th century BC · Geometry

    The first proof that some lengths can’t be measured in whole numbers.

    Being made

  2. Plate IV, The Sun at the Centre: Seen from Earth, Venus draws a five-pointed star every eight years.

    Plate IV

    The Sun at the Centre

    1543 · Astronomy

    Seen from Earth, Venus draws a five-pointed star every eight years.

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  3. Plate XXI, General Relativity: Light can circle a black hole.

    Plate XXI

    General Relativity

    1915 · Relativity

    Light can circle a black hole.

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  4. Plate XXIII, The Schrödinger Equation: The shapes of the hydrogen atom.

    Plate XXIII

    The Schrödinger Equation

    1926 · Quantum Mechanics

    The shapes of the hydrogen atom.

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  5. Plate XXV, The Lorenz Attractor: The butterfly effect: two runs a billionth apart, then nothing alike.

    Plate XXV

    The Lorenz Attractor

    1963 · Chaos

    The butterfly effect: two runs a billionth apart, then nothing alike.

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  6. Plate XXIX, The Aperiodic Monotile: One shape that never repeats, found by a retired print technician.

    Plate XXIX

    The Aperiodic Monotile

    2023 · Geometry

    One shape that never repeats, found by a retired print technician.

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All six

Folio One as a set: six plates in one size and finish, ten per cent less than buying them singly, in one delivery.

The set goes on sale when Plate I, The Diagonal of the Square, is finished. The other five sell singly now.

Folio One, delivery included
SizeUnframedFramed
Small, 30 × 42 cm£270$460£755$1,000
Medium, 50 × 70 cm£595$890£1,890$2,510
Large, 70 × 98 cm£1,025$1,375£2,810$3,755

The twenty-nine

The whole Canon, in order. Plate numbers never change, so each folio fills its own places on the wall; the rest are forthcoming.

  1. IThe Diagonal of the Square
  2. IIThe Measurement of the Circle
  3. IIIThe Size of the Earth
  4. IVThe Sun at the Centre
  5. VThe Laws of Kepler
  6. VIThe Law of Fall
  7. VIIThe Calculus
  8. VIIIUniversal Gravitation
  9. IXEuler’s Identity
  10. XThe Interference of Light
  11. XIThe Lines of Fraunhofer
  12. XIIFourier Series
  13. XIIINon-Euclidean Geometry
  14. XIVElectromagnetic Induction
  15. XVThe Riemann Hypothesis
  16. XVIMaxwell’s Equations
  17. XVIIEntropy
  18. XVIIIThe Quantum
  19. XIXSpacetime
  20. XXThe Atom
  21. XXIGeneral Relativity
  22. XXIINoether’s Theorem
  23. XXIIIThe Schrödinger Equation
  24. XXIVThe Expanding Universe
  25. XXVThe Lorenz Attractor
  26. XXVIBell’s Theorem
  27. XXVIIThe Afterglow of the Big Bang
  28. XXVIIIGravitational Waves
  29. XXIXThe Aperiodic Monotile