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Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'. [2] [3] [4] It is the oldest "film" listed on IMDb and ...
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a non-fiction book by C. S. Lewis. It was his last book and deals with medieval cosmology and the Ptolemaic universe. It portrays the medieval conception of a "model" of the world, which Lewis described as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of ...
Declassified photos taken by Cold War-era spy satellites have revealed hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria, a new study found.
A photo of Venus taken by Mariner 10. During another American flyby in 1967, Mariner 5 measured the strength of Venus's magnetic field. In 1974, Mariner 10 swung by Venus on its way to Mercury and took ultraviolet photographs of the clouds, revealing the extraordinarily high wind speeds in the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner-10 provided the best ...
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For the ratios of the radii of the outer planets' deferents to radius of the Earth, the Commentariolus gives 1 13 ⁄ 25 for Mars, 5 13 ⁄ 60 for Jupiter, and 9 7 ⁄ 30 for Saturn. For the ratios of the radii of their deferents to the radii of the larger of their epicycles, it gives 6 138 ⁄ 167 for Mars, 12 553 ⁄ 606 for Jupiter, and 11 ...
Taken for reasons unknown, a vault of images from US Army archives has the sensibility of a fashion portfolio, while the clothes themselves mirror modern runways trends.
In 1956, Nelson published a booklet, My Trip to Mars, the Moon, and Venus, and became something of a celebrity in the Ozarks. He held a successful annual Spacecraft Convention near his farm for about a decade, where he sold his pamphlet , and pay envelopes containing a small amounts of black hair, which he claimed had fallen off the large dog ...