Tag Archives: Science

1996: Europa

Posted on August 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Europa: September 7, 1996. Europa is the smallest of Jupiter’s moons. The bright crater on the bottom right is named Pwyll, after Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, a mythical Welsh king whose tale is told in the Mabinogion. One day, while … Continue reading →

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1904: Art Forms

Posted on July 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

Plates from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904): See more here.

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1851: Portrait

Posted on June 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

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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2010: I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

Posted on June 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

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)

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1878: Black Sun

Posted on June 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot: Total Eclipse of the Sun. Observed July 29, 1878, at Creston, Wyoming Territory. (source)

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1900: The Magician Entertains the Queen

Posted on May 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

Henry Gillard Glindoni: John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I (c. 1900) (source) The enigmatic John Dee was one of the most learned men of the Elizabethan period. Having amassed one of the largest libraries in England, he was … Continue reading →

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