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From Cajal to Dalí and Lorca: The drawings that revealed the substance of the human mind and inspired Surrealism
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Caricature by Monet of a man smoking a cigar. His head is twice the size of his body and the cigar is huge. The man is seated and turned towards the right.
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
"At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre."
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Pages from Geometria (1543) by German artist, mathematician, and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel. In this version from the Deutsche Fotothek, amid the rigid lines of the geometrical sketches appear the chaotic forms of stains: publicdomainreview.org/collection/hirschvogel-s...
A black and white photo of Dr. Reatha Clark King from the 1960s. She is wearing a white lab coat and has short hair. Dr. King is adjusting the stopcock on a lab apparatus to fill a vial that she is holding in her left hand.
Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938.
Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩🔬
A black-and-white historical photograph of Poppy Northcutt, the first female engineer in NASA’s Mission Control, seated at a console during the Apollo era. She is a young woman with long, blonde hair, wearing a dark top and a large communication headset. She is looking toward a male colleague seated next to her, her hands resting on open manuals and documents. The workstation is filled with period-appropriate technology, including a large console with numerous buttons, dials, and small monitors. In the background, other male staff members are visible at their own stations, creating a busy, professional atmosphere.
On this eve of International Day of Human Space Flight🚀 meet Poppy Northcutt.
As the first woman engineer in Mission Control, she didn't just break a glass ceiling—she calculated the Trans-Earth Injection that brought Apollo 11 & Apollo 13 home. #WomenInSTEM #Apollo11 #NASA (1/2) 👇
From the Earth to the Moon engraving from the 1872 illustrated edition. At the center of the image, a rocket-like projectile is blasting upward from the ground, leaving behind a bright vertical column of light and energy. The launch site at the bottom shows debris and smoke exploding outward. Surrounding the rocket, thick, swirling clouds billow and curl, almost forming a tunnel or opening in the sky. At the very top of the beam, high above the clouds, there’s a small capsule or projectile tip visible, emphasizing the ascent into the sky or possibly space. Near the lower edges, tiny human figures can be seen scattered around the landscape, watching the launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon#/media/File:From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(151481126).jpg
Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th‑century novel
by Anastasia Klimchynskaya
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Page from Vaticanus graecus 1296 Suda in ms. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus graecus 1296, fol. 193r. The text is written in dark ink using a flowing, cursive script as an early Greek handwriting. The lines are tightly spaced and somewhat uneven, with many ligatures and abbreviations typical of historical manuscripts. There are no illustrations—just dense blocks of text on both pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda#/media/File:Suda,_Vaticanus_graecus_1296.jpg
The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100
By Patricia Claus
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Photograph of Anna Katharine Green. She is turned to her right, but her face is towards the camera. Her coat is fur-lined.
#OTD in 1935 Anna Katharine Green died. "She was one of the first authors of detective fiction in the United States and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories."
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Cover image: Trajectory to Taurus Author: Les Cole Illustrator: Virgil Finlay This image is a vintage pulp magazine cover with a bold, eye-catching science fiction theme. At the top, the large title reads Amazing Science Fiction Stories, with a smaller headline above it saying “When the Moon Was Red.” The issue is dated September, and the price (35¢) is shown on the left. Central illustration: the Moon is depicted as a large, greenish, human-like face with exaggerated features—bulging eyes, deep wrinkles, and a mischievous or menacing expression. A small rocket is flying toward the Moon, and it looks as if the Moon is smoking it like a cigar, with a trail of smoke extending outward. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72539/pg72539-images.html
How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction
Ed Simon Goes Back to When the Past was the Future
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A drawing of Fujiwara no Teika, known as a courtier, waka poet and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. The figure is seated and dressed in elaborate court robes with wide sleeves and intricate patterns. He wears a formal headpiece and has a composed, slightly turned facial expression. In one hand, he seems to hold a rectangular object—possibly a writing tablet or scroll. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fujiwara_no_Teika.jpg
Japanese researchers look at 800-year-old books and trees for signs of extreme solar events
by By Tomoko Otake
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Full article here:
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Solar cycle at PG:
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American Badger indicated by the white stripe on the head starting above the nose. Besides white it is also light brown and tan. It appears to have come from a dirt hole and looking toward the camera. You can see its long claws.
Don't Mess With the American Badger
"It's a Badger's World!" That what this 1980 Britannica film was originally titled—and we can't argue with that finding today. In this vintage educational piece, Britannica visits a badger family."
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Born #onthisday in 1762, Giovanni Aldini, the Italian "galvanist" whose experiments in animating the muscles of the dead with electricity inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. More here in Sharon Ruston's essay: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
Split-image: On the left, a black-and-white historical portrait of Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005), the pioneering Black aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA who became the agency's first Black female engineer in 1958. She is shown in her later years wearing large round glasses, short curly hair styled in soft waves, large hoop earrings, a polka-dot blouse pr scarf with a brooch, and a warm, confident smile. On the right, a color scene from the 2016 film Hidden Figures, depicting actress Janelle Monáe portraying Mary Winston Jackson as a young mathematician and engineer at NASA. She sits at a desk in a classroom-like setting, wearing a bright yellow cardigan over a cream blouse, bold pink lipstick, gold earrings, with her hair in a sleek 1960s bob, gazing thoughtfully ahead amid colleagues in the background.
Aerospace engineer & "human computer" Mary Winston Jackson became NASA's first Black female engineer in 1958.
Her life & work, along with those of Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, inspired the book and film Hidden Figures. She was born #OTD in 1921. www.nasa.gov/people/mary-...
#WomenInSTEM
Physicist Sonja Ashauer was born 103 years ago today. In 1948 she became the first Brazilian woman to earn a PhD in physics, and she was on her way to a brilliant career in the field of quantum physics when she caught pneumonia and died at the age of just 23.
#WomenInSTEM #PhysicsSky #HistSci ⚛️
Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in the post on the site — publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
The Artemis II crew's amazing images are the latest in a series of human observations of the moon, reaching back to Galileo in 1610, who published the first images of the moon based on telescopic observation.
Our copy comes from the library of Astronomer Royal John Couch Adams (Adams.5.61.1).
Olympias presenting the young Alexander the Great to Aristotle, by Gerard Hoet, 1733. At centre of the painting, Olympias stands in white and pink drapery, gesturing with outstretched hand to present her young son to his future tutor. The small boy in green, curly-haired and eager, reaches back toward his mother while turning to face the bearded philosopher. Aristotle stands opposite in a blue-grey hooded robe, holding what appears to be a scroll or document, receiving the child with grave attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias#/media/File:Olympias_presenting_the_young_Alexander_the_Great_to_Aristotle_by_Gerard_Hoet_before_1733_MH.jpg
The Controversial Story of Olympias, Alexander the Great’s Powerful Mother
by Neil Middleton (from the archives)
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Greek history at PG:
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How the painting appeared before the first 20th century restoration, with the sitter as St. Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and palm frond. A young woman of idealised beauty sits in three-quarter pose before an open loggia, two columns framing a soft landscape with mountains in the distance. Her face is serene and direct, with large eyes meeting the viewer's gaze with calm self-possession. Her wavy hair is loosely dressed with a small ornament. She wears a gown with a broad dark horizontal band, a white shawl draped over her shoulders, a jewelled pendant necklace with a pearl drop, and a decorated belt. In her hands she holds what appears to be a disc or circular object — along with what may be a palm frond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Woman_with_Unicorn#/media/File:Sublimebeauty03-1.jpg
Raffaello Sanzio - Lady with unicorn The sitter's golden-auburn hair, pale complexion and remarkable green eyes are rendered with luminous delicacy. Her gown is a warm gold-yellow with a deep crimson-burgundy overdress and white sleeves. The ruby and pearl pendant glows against her décolletage. The small unicorn nestles in her lap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Woman_with_Unicorn#/media/File:Raffaello_Sanzio_-_Lady_with_unicorn.jpg
'Faithful wife', virgin or tragic martyr?: Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems
By Kelly Grovier
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Young Mark Twain. He is turned to his left. He moustache and hair appear brown.
#OTD In 1859, Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license.
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Math at Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg has long had an interest in mathematics, perhaps because of its timelessness. This interest has been expressed in many ways, though perhaps some of them were misguided in retrospect.
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Illustration from Walter Crane's 1906 book, Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden. A young woman in a pink Regency-style dress and wide-brimmed floral hat kneels in a garden, gathering an armful of vividly coloured flowers — daisies, poppies, irises, marigolds and more — before a marble bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal, set against dark topiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare_garden.jpg
Shakespeare Gardens Around the World Honor the Playwright—and Hold Their Own Storied History
by Mary Randolph
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"The Road Not Taken", as featured in Mountain Interval (1916). The title page and opening poem of Mountain Interval by Robert Frost, published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, copyright and first published November 1916. The left page shows the title page with a small decorative woodcut device — an owl motif in a square border — and identifies Frost as "Author of 'North of Boston'", his celebrated 1914 collection. The right page presents "The Road Not Taken" in full — the poem that opens the collection and became one of the most quoted and widely misread poems in the English language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost#/media/File:The_Road_Not_Taken_-_Robert_Frost.png
Robert Frost at Midlife
In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form
by Kamran Javadizadeh
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James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST
Mapping the distribution of ices in the host environments of protostellar hot corinos
Target: #BHR71
2025-04-07
PI: Jorgensen, Jes K.
NIRCAM 480 R 360 G 212+200 B
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Graphic showing multiple color coded links between oodles of characters.
Look at this incredible handout my students made for their presentation on Daniel Deronda. 😍
