"We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter, if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not, and that the Universe extends so in infinitum." -- Cyrano de Bergerac Elements d'astronomieJacques...
"This is the mapping of interference. Mistakes of the publishing process begin to read as stars, galaxies and nebulae." The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy Abra Ancliffe Portland: Abra Ancliffe, 2015 N7433.3 A53 S43 2015 From the artist’s statement: “The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy reproduces over one hundred, self-reflexive black...
Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...
You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever” – Psalm 104, NKJV “[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.” ― John Smith (1580-1631) Geographiae et hydrographi reformat… Giovanni...
“Newton’s design was to make me come to him, force me to comply with his humors, and flatter him and cry him up as Dr. Halley did. He thought to work me to his ends by putting me to extraordinary charges. Those that have begun...
“There is something moving between us, But we hurtle on in close conjunction for a while.” –from “Eclipse” by Leland Kinsey Eclipses from Trio Leland Kinsey The Janus Press: VT, 2014 N7433.4 A1 T75 2015 From the colophon: “These poems appeared previously in Northern Almanac published by Catamount Arts in St Johnsbury...
“Adore the sun, rising with all his rays, receiving the obeisance of gods and demons, the shining maker of light.” — The Ramayana The Cosmic Sidereal Galactic Abecedarium of the Universe & Other Tangential Ephemera Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek San Diego: Bay Park Press, 2001 N7433.4 R73 C67 2001 From...
“…senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as it were, driven…so that though...
“Where the hooves touch the ground.” NIGHT FEET ON EARTH Ken Campbell London, England: Ken Campbell, 1986 N7433.4 C36 N44 1987 Artist’s statement: “The recent visitation by Halley’s Comet, and its image upon the Bayeux Tapestry, brought forth a poem about comets and a divine child descending:; a rather pagan...