“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)
A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
From The Public Domain Review
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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To bring the Vulcan Centaur collection to date, here’s the Vulcan Centaur USSF-87 papermodel for free download! Cargo Dragon CRS-35 is now available. This will complete the iRosa installation on all Power Channels. A postflight model for S40 is pending. Stay tuned for an upcoming 1:400 scale diorama…
From Kagi Small Web
How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.
From The Public Domain Review
2026: Annus horribilis
I enjoy staring up at the stars at night and trying to wrap my tiny brain around the vast distances and time that their light has travelled. I find it relaxing to consider just how insignificant I am, and how brief and unimportant my existence is. I am hypnotised when watching the wind ripple…
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That's this stretch.
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