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Alien Aqueducts The Maps of Martian Canals
schiaparelli_1879.jpg (3737×2160) (elte.hu) Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals – The Public Domain Review
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 …
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries thereupon
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Exoplanets and geology
For anybody with an interest in our current knowledge of exoplanets, this episode of Exocast is certainly a great place to start. I’ve gone through the papers highlighted by Hannah Wakefield in the show and put links to them below – all of which I have collected via the links already provided by the Exocast …
Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947)
Featured image All text quoted from Ron Miller’s excellent Gizmodo page on Lucien Rudaux. Check out Ron’s work here Although largely unknown today, astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux was the grandfather of all modern space art. During the height of his career in the 1920s and 30s, he produced spacescapes of such accuracy that they still hold …
Things to come (1936)
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 …
Malevitch, Suprematism and Space
Kazimir Malevich and the use of the word ‘Sputnik’. Kazimir Malevich’s work tells a compelling story about the dream of a new social order, the struggle of revolutionary ideals and the power of art itself. Central to this was his prescient fascination with outer space, the cosmos and man’s destiny to explore it (at one …