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Description: The logo is inspired in the former Wikipedia's logo, when it was Nupedia auxiliar project (see). It's made by superposing a Thomas Hobbes's phrase on a circle, using fisheye effect to simulate a sphere. The phrase is a quote from "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, (Part I, Chapter VI), which says:"man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but by this singular passion from other animals, which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure".The quote is part of a more complete phrase, the following one:"Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
Title: Wiki logo The Cunctator
Credit: Logo history on Meta: Second major Wikipedia logo, designed by The Cunctator and used from late 2001 until 2003.
Author: The Cunctator
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