A piece in the Principium series.
I have raised a monument more durable than bronze.
Ergui um monumento mais duradouro do que o bronze.
Horace's closing words at the end of the third book of the "Odes", rejoicing in the quality of his poetry – and indeed his words have endured to this day.
The main illustration is by Julius Casserius (Giulio Casserio, Giulius Casseri, or Casserii Placentini), born around 1556 in Piacenza, Italy.
Faded into the background is this map of the stars of the northern hemisphere, engraved by W. G. Evans of New York for the 1856 edition of Burritt's Atlas to illustrate the Geography of the Heavens.
Also part of the background are stylised images of neurons and neural networks, such as the following:
