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View more of August Strindberg’s “Celestographs” on the National Library of Sweden’s Flickr.

see https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strindberg-captured-stars-celestographs

Swedish polymath August Strindberg created his celestographs in 1894 by leaving photographic plates to be exposed under the night sky. With the resulting images Strindberg believed he had discovered a new method of capturing the stars, however, the cosmic shapes where merely dust and dirt on the plates. The Miura fold, discovered in 1970 is a rigid fold that has been used to simulate large solar panel arrays for space satellites and it is speculated that the fold could be used to deploy solar sails as a form of future space propulsion. My Miura Celestograph was made with dust in an enlarger exposed onto folded paper which was the flattened and scanned for display, the work exists as an editioned A3 digital print.

Falling in love with August Strindberg and his crazy science today. As long as its beautiful, it's probably true - right?!! @littler_tom #strindberg #celestograph #theatredesign #design

Celestial image called a 'Celestograph' ( 1893-94) produced by August Strindberg by placing photographic plates ( without the use of a camera or lens) directly on a windowsill or the ground in order to get a direct image of the starry night sky. Even though he didn't manage to achieve his aim ( the celestial image is probably due to dew, pollen or dirt in the developer), it still looks very like a starry sky.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/celesographs.php