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Category Archives: The Sky at Night
Kepler 1606
Johann Kepler, De stella nova in pede serpentarii (Prague, 1606) Kepler’s star map shows the constellations of Ophiuchus (the Serpent Handler), Sagittarius and Scorpius. The Milky Way runs diagonally down from the left, and the “ecliptic,” or annual path of … Continue reading
Urania’s Mirror 1824
Urania’s Mirror (London 1825), a boxed set of 32 cards; with Jehoshaphat Aspin, A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy (London 1825), 2d ed. Constellation figures, as in this boxed set of 32 constellation cards, make learning the constellations easy. Each card … Continue reading
Tennyson 1843
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poems (London, 1843), 2 vols. “Many a night I saw the Pleiades rising thro’ the mellow shade, glitter like a swarm of fire-flies Tangled in a silver braid.” “Locksley Hall,” 5th couplet.
Hoot the Owl
A children’s book, The Story of How the Constellation ‘Hoot the Owl’ Began, was written and Illustrated by Anna Todd (2017), a 2nd grade student at Rose Witcher Elementary School, El Reno Public Schools, located in El Reno, Oklahoma. The … Continue reading
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Hoot the Owl – back story
1/25/2018 We believe that educational outreach is at the center of our exhibitions, so nothing could have excited us more than a letter we received last November when Stacey Stevenson told us the story of “Hoot the Owl.” A children’s … Continue reading
The Sky at Night
Galileo’s World at a GlanceGallery at the Exhibit WebsiteLocation: History of Science Collections, Bizzell Memorial Library. What is the artistic and scientific heritage of the sky at night? When Galileo observed the belt and sword of Orion the Hunter, and … Continue reading
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