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🎨 All art shown is original or a reproduction with original added historically inspired artwork, images are for sale on the website. See link in bio. 🎈 Lofty Ambitions 7th January 1610, the Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and ‘father of Science’, Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter. The very next day the German astronomer Simon Marius. also independently discovers the same three moons which he names Io, Europa and Ganymede. 7th January 1785, the first balloon flight across the English Channel by and John Jeffries. Two days later in 1793, Jean Pierre Blanchard also pilot’s the first balloon flight in the US lifts in Philadelphia. The public interest in Balloon flight, created ‘Balloonomania’ in the late 18th century, which continued into the 19th. Images of balloons were depicted on collectibles such as plates, cups, clocks, snuff boxes, and bracelets; as well as in Romantic poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley. William Blake also mocked the balloon fascination in his unfinished “An Island in the Moon”, written in 1784. 9th January 1848, death of German pioneering astronomer Caroline Herschel, brother of fellow astronomer William Herschel. Caroline Herschel was the first woman to gain a salary as a scientist, as well as discovering a number of comets, including 35P/Herschel–Rigollet which bears her name; she was also the first woman in 1828, to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. The C. Hershel crater on the Moon is named after her. Continued in the comments #galileo #historyofastronomy #balloonmania #hotairballoon #percyshelley #williamblake #tarotillustration #tarotart #tarotartist #tarotdecks #steampunktarot #oddhistory #weirdhistory #strangehistory #carolineherschel #williamherschel #historicalillustration #darkhistory #darkillustration #edgarallenpoe #greatmoonhoax #lifeonthemoon #tarothistory #balloonart #18thcenturyart #astronomyart #astronomylover #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3kkPGHx5r/?igshid=1etqh2yc3xu6p

January, 11 #onthisday 630. Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender. 947. Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin. 1055. Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire. 1158. Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia. 1779. Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur. 1787. William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. 1805. The Michigan Territory is created. 1861. American Civil War: Alabama seceded from the United states. 1863. American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union. 1879. The Anglo-Zulu War begins. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #mecca #prophetmuhammad #islam #conquestofmecca #taizong #laterjin #byzantineempire #theodora #bohemia #vladislausii #manipur #chingthangkhomba #williamherschel #astronomy #titania #oberon #uranus #michiganterritory #alabama #unitedstates #americancivilwar #daviddixon #anglozuluwar https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ5afFKHf1u/?igshid=kt7979m2wd2l

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Güneş’teki değişimleri ve güneş çevrimini de inceleyen Herschel, 40 yıldan uzun süre boyunca güneş lekelerini ve bunların sayıları, şekilleri ve büyüklüklerindeki değişiklikleri gözlemledi. Gözlemlerinin büyük kısmının, lekelerin sayıca nispeten az olduğu Dalton minimumuna denk gelmesi nedeniyle 11 yıllık standart periyodu belirleyememiş olsa da, bu gözlemlerinden birisi sırasında güneş ışığındaki kızılötesi radyasyonu keşfetti ve bu sayede, ilk defa, görünür spektrumun dışında farklı bir ışıma türü daha olduğunu gösterdi.

Witches and Cyriptids on the Moone! 🌝 Scientific Dichotomies 1571 - 1835 A tale in three Parts. 📚 Part I 📖 🔭 23rd December, 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. On the same day in 1690 English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it was at that point still undiscovered. The discovery would later be credited to Sir William Herschel on March 13th, 1781, William Herschel believed that life existed on other planets, and in 1778 wrote that he had observed lunar towns. The idea however that life existed on the moon, or on these newly discovered planets was already by Herschel time an old idea. On the night of the 26th July 1609, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer, Thomas Harriot made the first map of the moon, followed by Galileo’s map four months later, and Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari 1662 map. At this same time in the late 1620’s, English bishop Francis Godwin, writing under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales, wrote what is considered as the first science fiction novel ‘The Man in the Moone’. The story describes Gonsales’ twelve day journey to the moon, using a flying machine tethered to a species of powerful swans he calls the ‘gansa 🦢 . On the surface he encounters the Lunars, inhabiting a utopian paradise. 🎈 The 18th and 19th century saw an increase in folklore and scientific speculation, including the possibility of life on other planets, aided by the first accessions of balloons, the first experiments with flight; and with men and woman leaving the earth’s surface for the first time, William Blake mocked the balloon fascination in his unfinished “An Island in the Moon” written in 1784. 📖 Part II & III in the comments. #historyofastronomy #williamherschel #issacnewton #johanneskepler #historyofscience #greatmoonhoax #illustration #illustrationartist #darkillustration #strangehistory #weirdhistory #themaninthemoon #scientificrevolution #witchcrafthistory #witchart #balloonartist #lifeonthemoon #edgarallenpoeart #edgarallenpoe #historicalillustration #interestingfinds #interestingart #cryptids #cryptidsighting #johnherschel #ballonmania https://www.instagram.com/p/CJTo5KmHvFp/?igshid=19yismmj2h1t7

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