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caravaggio / frederick sandys / pablo picasso / leonardo da vinci / elihu vedder / arnold böcklin / yinka shonibare / keith haring / frank von stuck / laura dreyfuss barney

Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Luciano Garbati, 2008

SPace is the place, Chesley Bonestell

relax & refresh wi peppermint tea🍃👌

The Back Roads Of Pennsylvania

Vogue❤️

built in 1895

Mulhollandwave, Andria Darius Pancrazi

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart  (via petrichour)

Florian Bertmer - Hand of Glory!

The hand of glory is an object used in black magic. It is said to be a mummified hand of a criminal that was hung, and fixed with a candle in its palm. The hand is said to paralyze the users victims, and make them unable to speak or move.

Pieter van der Heyden, Hand of Glory, Detail of Jacob Meets the Magician Hermogenes, 1565

Mary Somerville is the reason for the word ‘scientist.’ A self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, she was a master of connecting the physical sciences. In 1834, she’d impressed a historian who found himself unable to publicly praise her because the only common description for that sort of scholar was ‘man of science.’ He then coined the term 'scientist’- but it wasn’t intended to be a gender-neutral noun, it was specifically a reference to Mary Somerville’s expertise. Source Source 2 Source 3