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James Nasmyth’s Moon

PHOTOGRAPHS OF (MODELS OF) THE MOON (1874) I recently viewed some lunar surface photographs that were taken in 1874, almost 100 years before the Apollo Program did the same. Sensing foul play at best or conspiracy at worst, I took great joy in reading up about James Nasmyth’s lunar observations, sketched from the eyepiece and …

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Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

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 …

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