From Messy Nessy Chic:
Full disclosure, we never gave the Periodic Table much thought – it remains in our memory as a clunky patchwork of confusing titled squares taped to the back of our school chemistry folder that our teachers would occasionally torture us with for a pop quiz on the elements. Walter Russell however, a 1920s Renaissance man, did give the Periodic Table a lot of thought, so much so, that he was inspired to reimagine it in a dramatically different and artistic form, adding two missing elements that would later lead to the development of the atom bomb. This, coming from a guy who never advanced beyond a grade 4 education. But there was something about Walter. The great Serbian-American inventor, Nikola Tesla was an admirer, and was so awed by Russell’s philosophy on cosmology and the nature of the universe that he told him to lock his findings in a sepulcher for a thousand years, because in his opinion, mankind was not ready for it. Keeping up with the many lives of Walter Russell is as dizzying as attempting to understand his extensive archive of mesmerising New Age diagrams. He was an eccentric scientific philosopher, renowned sculptor and impressionist painter, an author, musician, equestrian, an architectural developer – and, perhaps the cherry on the cake – he is credited with introducing figure skating to America. So without further ado, it’s time to get better acquainted with this under-the-radar 20th century visionary....
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