All text and images on this post are from the links provided and can be found here. All text is by Peter Pesic in relation to his work Music and the making of modern science. By Peter Pesic Many people interested in science are also keenly interested in music, and vice versa. But what is …
Whilst researching Alexander Jamieson, I came across images of Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus, which I thought were stunning in detail and alternative insight of the times. I won’t go too deep into Kircher as he certainly lived a life, creating a sunflower clock and running a personal museum (visit biodiversity.org) amongst other things. It’s his eye-opening …
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Whilst researching Alex Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas, I took a deep dive into the website of Ian Ridpath, a real polymath on the subject and fascinating for anybody with an interest in astronomy. The text below is quoted from his website. “Of all Jamieson’s many publications, it is his Celestial Atlas that is best remembered. By the time …
I recently watched THINGS TO COME on the Archive.org website and thoroughly enjoyed the journey into it’s retro future. Prompted from it being referenced in the Interplanetary podcast show recently, I researched two elements of the film – the art design (or production design) and the music. The plot lines investigated by HG Wells are …
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All images from the New York Public Library Abstract. The French-born artist Trouvelot arrived in the United States in 1855. His interest in astronomy began with his observations and sketches of spectacular auroras in the 1870s. This work drew the interest of Harvard College Observatory astronomers and he was invited to join the staff. Using …
