Tattoosday in the Berkshires: Sean's Corpernican Title

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I met Sean last month at <a href="http://www.shakespeare.org/">Shakespeare & Company</a>, in Lenox, Massachusetts.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYoc9NNlKJ-y3Kk1RAwmG158Xnf7xT-ZQZjjlnNeltVS-6k9z7EdnkiGu4IEbqLAHvepSocEmquSGFMpBBIyFKX_bd52pe8jIDo6YGZn7NTCpedbnrLRRWP6GCJrPEruJkX02QY65z2E/w603-h659-no/IMG_1198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYoc9NNlKJ-y3Kk1RAwmG158Xnf7xT-ZQZjjlnNeltVS-6k9z7EdnkiGu4IEbqLAHvepSocEmquSGFMpBBIyFKX_bd52pe8jIDo6YGZn7NTCpedbnrLRRWP6GCJrPEruJkX02QY65z2E/w603-h659-no/IMG_1198.JPG" width="584" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sean was working at the snack bar at the Tina Packer Playhouse, but I had seen him earlier in the week in an amazing performance as Trufaldin in an adaptation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re">Molière's</a> <i><a href="http://www.shakespeare.org/ai1ec_event/les-faux-pas-or-the-counterplots-2/?instance_id=">Les Faux Pas</a></i>.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://ads.harvard.edu/books/1543droc.book/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">De revolutionibus orbium coelestium</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"> is the title of a book published in 1543 by the Renaissance astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus">Copernicus</a>. The title, translated from the Latin, is <i>On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">Sean elaborated about the origins of this tattoo, which he had done at a shop in Seattle:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">"I was looking at the root of the word <i>revolt</i> or <i>revolution</i> and it comes from Copernicus ... so I was wanting something that had ... the idea of revolt and revolution ... I became curious as to where the word came from ... [and] I started reading about his theory."</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">As regular readers of this site can tell you, I love textual tattoos, and the idea of inscribing the title of a book almost 500 years old is fascinating, because it's not just about the title, but about the ideas espoused therein.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.15;">Thanks to Sean for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!</span></span><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-29ec20c0-db1d-2279-5c20-0c27bc975233"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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Tattoosday in the Berkshires: Sean's Corpernican Title

I met Sean last month at Shakespeare & Company , in Lenox, Massachusetts. Sean was working at the snack bar at the Tina Packer Playhouse...

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