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Hommage à Arago

By Jan Dibbets

Ever notice a mysterious bronze medallion embedded in Paris pavement? It's part of the Arago Line, Jan Dibbets's 1994 conceptual tribute tracing the old Paris meridian, echoing Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code fame and 19th-century astronomer François Arago

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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