The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote that Newton's binomial theorem was as beautiful as the Venus de Milo. I would like to add another masterpiece to the pair: Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue: [1]
I can't resist putting an alternative: Beethoven's last piano sonata: [2]
My WP featured pictures
The Photographer. S. Martinho do Porto, Portugal
Twin lantana with spider
Using the caliper
Vernier caliper
Using the sextant
Lantana camara
Egyptian grasshopper
Wind rose. Jorge de Aguiar, 1492
The battle of Aljubarrota. Lisboa, Portugal
Red-veined darter
Poster of hoverflies
Red Admiral butterfly
Bumblebee robbing nectar
Poster of Asteraceae flowers
Head of a hoverfly
Wasp blowing a bubble
Chart by Fernão Vaz Dourado (1571)
Bartolomeu Velho, Cosmographia (1568)
A solitary bee (Eucera sp.)
Wasp colony
Marmelade fly
Paper wasp
Sand wasp
Painted lady
Pot-bellied pigs
Spider and bee
Bee-killer wasp
Speckled Wood
Weevil
Missing square puzzle
Crochet table-cloth
Chart by Pedro Reinel (c. 1504)
Hoverfly feeding
Tower of Belém, Lisbon
Atlantic Ocean, Portugal
Pythagorean theorem
Chart by Jorge de Aguiar, 1492
Male tabby cat
Flowers of Heliopsis
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow
Sunset at Porto Covo, Portugal
Tachinid fly
The legend of the Miraculous Sacrement
Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Graslei port, Ghent
Common Poppy
Cantino planisphere
Green House in Helsink Botanical Garden
House of the Estates, Helsinki
Nazaré, Portugal
Downton in Tampa, Florida
Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Portugal
Carpenter bee on flower
Hoverfly on flower
Alentejo country view
Paper wasp queen
Green lacewing
St Peter basilica, in Rome
Room of the Ambassadors, Alcázar of Seville
Banded Garden Spider
Lutheran Cathedral of Helsinki
Vagrant Emperor dragonfly
Monastery of Batalha, Portugal
Monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal
Tomb of Gisleni, at the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome