For image sources and more detail click here The stylised depictions of the comets echo the fantastical bent of the text — “Veru” as a lance, “Domina capillorum” as burning wheel, “Rosa” with beaming face, and “Scutella” as some kind of heavenly Asclepius’s staff. In the landscapes below which the comet’s stream we see some …
Puppis Puppis is the stern of what was once the much larger constellation of The Argo – the ship Jason sailed in Greek mythology. The French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided up the original constellation (as documented in Ptolomy’s Amalgest) in 1752 to the parts of the ship – the keel – Carina, the …
cover image by Bradley Sheard The 88 constellations are a way of mapping the entire sky and a way to navigate/orientate yourself and find targets. My plan over the next few posts is to highlight constellations that lie within the Milky Way and to memorize them, keeping the blog post as a reference. Using the …
CONSTELLATIONS #1 Canis Minor, Monoceros and Canis Major Read More »
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Leila Belkora’s Minding the Heavens; a great book for an historic overview on the discovery of the Milky Way. The opening chapter introduced me to Thomas Wright who’s creative deductions reasoned that we are embedded within the body of stars known as the Milky Way. He also considered the infinity of the universe and the …
Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750) Read More »
