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  1. valentina

    The Drunk Astronomers

    valentina posted a topic in Limited Editions

    Credit for some of the first recorded accounts of eclipses are attributed to the legendary Drunk Astronomers, Ho and Hsi, circa 2137 BCE. Ho and Hsi were royal astronomers in the court of Chung Kang. They were in charge of predicting the celestial dance all movements of the Heavenly Bodies. They we...
  2. zankoku_zen
    By now it was about midday and a darkness fell over the whole land, which lasted until three in the afternoon; the suns light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus gave a loud cry and said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit; and with these words he died. Radiant...
  3. annemathematics

    Mabel

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    Mabel Loomis Todd is probably best known as the first editor of Emily Dickinsons poetry and editor of publications of Dickinsons posthumous works. She was also a fearless and experienced adventuress, eclipse chaser and astronomer, and trekked over the globe locating unobscured sites to witness solar...
  4. DiesMali

    Disastrous Twilight

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    As when the Sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the Moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. – John Milton, Paradise Lost Star-touched blue amber, gurjum balsam, pale orr...
  5. torikitty

    The Thales Eclipse

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    In the sixth year a battle took place in which it happened, when the fight had begun, that suddenly the day became night. And this change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians laying down as a limit this very year in which the change took place. The Lydians however and the Medes...
  6. annemathematics

    18 June 1860

    annemathematics posted a topic in Limited Editions

    On this date, the first wet plate photograph of an eclipse was taken. Shimmering amber, collodion, silver nitrate accord, and white lavender. Bright, herbal, not-sweet lavender with a bit of the lab's magic-metal-smells over amber. this is big, rich and smooth. I'd kinda hoped that this would tak...
  7. sprout

    In Hideous Darkness

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    The elements manifested their sorrow at this great man’s departure from England. For the Sun on that day at the 6th hour shrouded his glorious face, as the poets say, in hideous darkness, agitating the hearts of men by an eclipse; and on the 6th day of the week early in the morning there was so grea...
  8. tativa

    Eclipses Be

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    Eclipses be predicted And Science bows them in But do one face us suddenly Jehovahs watch is wrong. Emily Dickinson Rose amber, carnation, and clove. How has no one reviewed this one yet? I've worn it 2 of the last few days since I tried it! Now 3 while I give this short review before wor...
  9. vikingpixie

    The Sun in Anger Swore

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    And the moon in haste eclipsed her, and the Sun in anger swore He would curl his wick within him and give light to you no more. – Aristophanese, Chorus of Clouds A withdrawn, seething red amber spiked with dragon’s blood resin, black pepper, red musk, and red oudh. The descriptions for all of T...
  10. theseagrows

    All Ruinous Disorders

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    These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide, in cities mutinies, in countries discord, in palaces treason, and the bo...
  11. Spaztic

    Oil and Pitch

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    It has been known since antiquity that looking directly at an eclipse can cause serious damage to the eyes. Islamic scholar, Al-Biruni, observed that you could minimize the damage by viewing an eclipse reflected in the surface of still water. In his Naturales Quaestiones, Seneca observed, Whenever w...
  12. annemathematics

    The Sun Has Perished

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    and the Sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist hovers over all. Homer, the Odyssey An evil mist hovers over all: Tunisian amber, wilted asphodel, myrrh, and smoke. the lab's beautiful asphodel over a base of smooth myrrh. some ambery sweetness, very subtle smoke (leans frankincense an...
  13. vikingpixie
    Nothing is unexpected, nothing is foresworn and Nothing amazes now that father Zeus the Olympian veiled the light to make it night at midday even as sun was shining: so dread fear has overtaken men. From this time on everything that men believe will be doubted: may none of us who see this be surpris...
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