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Tag Archives: Astronomy
1840: A Line Drawn Through the Eye of the Observer and the Centre of the Sun
All rainbows are portions of circles, and the eye of the observer is always opposite to the centre of the circle. The quantity of the circle seen, depends on the height of the sun above the horizon at the time … Continue reading
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1903: Mission to Ento
From the preface to Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento (1903), originally published as Journeys to the Planet Mars, or, Our mission to Ento (Mars): Being a Record of Visits Made to Ento (Mars) by Sara … Continue reading
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1851: Portrait
John Adams Whipple: The Moon (1851) Whipple, an inventor and photographer, worked with William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, to photograph the moon using Harvard’s Great Refractor telescope, at that time the largest in the world.
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1495: Relationship Issues
Piero di Cosimo: A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph [The Death of Procris] (c. 1495) (source) In one version of the myth of Procris, her husband Cephalus abandons her for eight years to test her fidelity, and then, when he … Continue reading
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2010: I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
View of Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Herschel Crater—80 miles wide—is on the right. (source)
1878: Black Sun
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot: Total Eclipse of the Sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory. (source)
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