Philosophy
Yesterday marked the birthdate of Camille Flammarion [French astronomer]. Okay, who is Camille Flammarion? Flammarion published his first book in 1862, La pluralité des mondes habités [The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds] and he went on to become the mostly widely-read author of popular science books in the last half of the nineteenth century. Flammarion understood the importance of vivid and plentiful illustrations and his books are filled with attractive wood engravings that are still often reproduced. One of his illustrations has taken on a life of its own depicting in a Renaissance style a supposed medieval philosopher, poking his head through the sphere of stars to view the wheels and cogs that drive the heavens. It was used on the dust jacket of Daniel Boorstein's The Discoverers [1983] and on many other book covers often described as a Renaissance woodcut. In fact, it is a wood engraving, and it first appeared in Flammarion's 1888 book, L'atmosphére.
Flammarion woodcut
- Deceased--antonio Frasconi
Antonio Frasconi April 28th, 1919 to January 8th, 2013 "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" by Douglas Martin January 21st, 2013 The New York Times In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America’s foremost practitioner of...
- Eugène Michel Antoniadi...ardent Observer Of Mars
Wikipedia... Eugène Michel Antoniadi (...1 March 1870, Constantinople – 10 February 1944, Paris) was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France when invited there by Camille Flammarion. He was also known as Eugenios...
- Do You Have A Few Extra £s For Some Old Star Charts?
"World's oldest star charts up for auction" Woodcut prints created by German artist Albrecht Dürer and two astronomers expected to fetch up to £180,000 at Sotheby's sale by Maev Kennedy March 21st, 2011 guardian.co.uk The oldest printed star...
- John Tenniel---189 Years Ago
A close co-incidence for the release of Burton's film on Friday [March 5th] for it is John Tenniel's birthday February 28th, 1820]. "John Tenniel and the persistence of 'Wonderland'" by Geoff Boucher February 28th, 2010 Los Angeles Times...
- Edge Of The Universe
Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers [dust-jacket illustration; attributed to a 16th-century woodcut by the Bettmann Archive] A Medieval science thought experiment...well, maybe not so Medieval: "If you thrust your hand beyond the outermost sphere, would...
Philosophy
Camille Flammarion/Flammarion woodcut
Yesterday marked the birthdate of Camille Flammarion [French astronomer]. Okay, who is Camille Flammarion? Flammarion published his first book in 1862, La pluralité des mondes habités [The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds] and he went on to become the mostly widely-read author of popular science books in the last half of the nineteenth century. Flammarion understood the importance of vivid and plentiful illustrations and his books are filled with attractive wood engravings that are still often reproduced. One of his illustrations has taken on a life of its own depicting in a Renaissance style a supposed medieval philosopher, poking his head through the sphere of stars to view the wheels and cogs that drive the heavens. It was used on the dust jacket of Daniel Boorstein's The Discoverers [1983] and on many other book covers often described as a Renaissance woodcut. In fact, it is a wood engraving, and it first appeared in Flammarion's 1888 book, L'atmosphére.
Flammarion woodcut
- Deceased--antonio Frasconi
Antonio Frasconi April 28th, 1919 to January 8th, 2013 "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" by Douglas Martin January 21st, 2013 The New York Times In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America’s foremost practitioner of...
- Eugène Michel Antoniadi...ardent Observer Of Mars
Wikipedia... Eugène Michel Antoniadi (...1 March 1870, Constantinople – 10 February 1944, Paris) was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France when invited there by Camille Flammarion. He was also known as Eugenios...
- Do You Have A Few Extra £s For Some Old Star Charts?
"World's oldest star charts up for auction" Woodcut prints created by German artist Albrecht Dürer and two astronomers expected to fetch up to £180,000 at Sotheby's sale by Maev Kennedy March 21st, 2011 guardian.co.uk The oldest printed star...
- John Tenniel---189 Years Ago
A close co-incidence for the release of Burton's film on Friday [March 5th] for it is John Tenniel's birthday February 28th, 1820]. "John Tenniel and the persistence of 'Wonderland'" by Geoff Boucher February 28th, 2010 Los Angeles Times...
- Edge Of The Universe
Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers [dust-jacket illustration; attributed to a 16th-century woodcut by the Bettmann Archive] A Medieval science thought experiment...well, maybe not so Medieval: "If you thrust your hand beyond the outermost sphere, would...