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How odd that Dino Buzzati’s wonderfully odd, satirical SF novel, “Il grande ritratto” (1960) is now available in A.M. Appel’s elegant English translation - reviewed below by the great Michael Wood - but that the Italian original remains out of print. Mondadori, please act!

Hoy celebramos la noche más terrorífica del año y víspera de la festividad de Todos los Santos.👻

Lo hacemos rememorando los dibujos de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer de su álbum satírico ‘Les morts pour rire: Bizarreries’. 💀⬇
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Grand Océan Boréal dressé pour la campagne de M. de La Pérouse en 1785

À l'occasion de son exposition au musée de la BnF, parcourez avec Gallica le Grand Océan Boréal tel qu'il a été cartographié par Jean-Nicolas Buache pour l'expédition de Jean-François de La Pérouse en 1785 : c.bnf.fr/XrO via @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Black and white photo of Karl Weierstrass in his later years. His white hair is receding, longer in the back, and he is wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt underneath.

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. 🧪 🎃

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but he showed them all in 1872 when he announced that he had created a MONSTER. Let's learn about the terrible thing he did.

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

A plot of Weierstrass's monster with a=1/3 and b=21, over the range -2 < x < 2. The "curve" is blood red on a stark white background. It appears to be shaped like a sine wave, with additional sine waves superimposed.

A plot of Weierstrass's monster with a=1/3 and b=21, over the range -.2 < x < .2. The "curve" is blood red on a stark white background. It appears to be shaped like a sine wave, with additional sine wave superimposed.

A plot of Weierstrass's monster with a=1/3 and b=21, over the range -.02 < x < .02. The "curve" is blood red on a stark white background. It appears to be shaped like a sine wave, with additional sine waves superimposed.

A plot of Weierstrass's monster with a=1/3 and b=21, over the range -.002 < x < .002. The "curve" is blood red on a stark white background. It appears to be shaped like a sine wave, with additional sine waves superimposed.

Here are some plots showing the first 1000 terms in the sum over [-2,2], [-0.2,0.2], [-0.02,0.02], and [-.002,.002], using the values a=1/3 and b=21 from Weierstrass's original proof.

[a wolf howls in the distance]

As you study these plots, a hideous truth reveals itself. (4/n)

Tuesday Night, 9’o clock. Sept. 18th 1798 Over what place does the Moon hang to your eye my dearest Sara ? To me it hangs over the left bank of the Elbe ; and a long trembling road of moonlight reaches from thence up to the stern of our Vessel, & there it ends. We have dropped anchor in the middle of the Stream 30 mile from Cuxhaven, where we arrived this morning at eleven o‘clock, after an unusually fine passage of only 48 hours -. S.T. Coleridge to Mrs. S.T.Coleridge, in 'Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge', Vol.1, p.415f [Nr.254] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956

Romantic Landscapes (24/n)
#NorthSea #Coleridge #Wordsworth #DWordsworth #RomanticLandscapes

S.T.Coleridge, William & Dorothy Wordsworth sail from Yarmouth across the North Sea to Cuxhaven in September 1798, Wordsworth 'shockingly ill, his Sister worst of all - vomiting, & groaning, unspeakably!'

QUITTED London, Friday, 14th September 1798. Arrived at Yarmouth on Saturday noon, and sailed on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Before we heaved the anchor I was consigned to the cabin, which I did not quit till we were in still water at the mouth of the Elbe, on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. I was surprised to find, when I came upon deck, that we could not see the shores, though we were in the river. It was to my eyes a still sea. But oh ! the gentle breezes and the gentle motion ! . . . As we advanced towards Cuxhaven the shores appeared low and flat, and thinly peopled; here and there a farm-house, cattle feeding, hay-stacks, a cottage, a windmill. Some vessels were at anchor at Cuxhaven, an ugly, black-looking place. Dismissed a part of our crew, and proceeded in the packet-boat up the river.

Romantic Landscapes (24.2/n)
#NorthSea #DWordsworth #RomanticLandscapes

In Dorothy Wordsworth's journal, the journey is described in more sober & dry manner - then a quiet landscape at the mouth of Elbe river.

Now I got a journal spam mail that exhorts me to publish with them but doesn‘t even bother to give me the name of the journal. Unless „Our Newly Scopus Indexed Journal“ *is* the name. 🧪

The Ocean is a noble Thing by night ; a beautiful white cloud of foam at momently intervals roars & rushes by the side of the Vessel, and Stars of Flame dance & sparkle & go out in it - & every now and then light Detachments of Foam dart away from the Vessel‘s side with their galaxies of stars, & scour out of sight, like a Tartar Tropp over a Wilderness! -- What these Stars are, I cannot say - the sailors say, that they are Fish Spawn which is phosphorescent. -- S.T. Coleridge to Mrs. S.T.Coleridge Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol.1 p.416, Nr.254 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956

Romantic Landscapes (24.1/n)
#NorthSea #Coleridge #Wordsworth #DWordsworth #RomanticLandscapes

Coleridge 'neither sick or giddy, but gay as a lark. The sea rolled rather high; but the motion was pleasant to me.' - boozes with 3 Danes, also passengers, who 'present a rich feast for a Dramatist'.

Tuesday Night, 9’o clock. Sept. 18th 1798 Over what place does the Moon hang to your eye my dearest Sara ? To me it hangs over the left bank of the Elbe ; and a long trembling road of moonlight reaches from thence up to the stern of our Vessel, & there it ends. We have dropped anchor in the middle of the Stream 30 mile from Cuxhaven, where we arrived this morning at eleven o‘clock, after an unusually fine passage of only 48 hours -. S.T. Coleridge to Mrs. S.T.Coleridge, in 'Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge', Vol.1, p.415f [Nr.254] Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956

Romantic Landscapes (24/n)
#NorthSea #Coleridge #Wordsworth #DWordsworth #RomanticLandscapes

S.T.Coleridge, William & Dorothy Wordsworth sail from Yarmouth across the North Sea to Cuxhaven in September 1798, Wordsworth 'shockingly ill, his Sister worst of all - vomiting, & groaning, unspeakably!'

Calotropis gigantea:
crown flower, giant milkweed, Kronenblume, ಅರ್ಕ

Said to be favourite flower of Lord Shiva. Latex contains cardiatic glykosides, used as arrow poison.

I found my first Pyrrhotite softer than fluorite and attracted to magnet! Found in quartz vein in marble outcrop, Berkshires MA usa

Screenshot from The Name of the Rose. The Franciscan friar William of Baskerville is using a pair of eyeglasses in the scene.

*staring* at you, reader. Are you still following this thread? There is more, and there will be more eyeglasses - soon.

Trunk and inner branches with big green yellow leaves of a medium sized tree. Close at the trunk many big brown fruits, round with size of canonballs, are hanging like grapes.

Couroupita guianensis: cannonball tree, ನಾಗಲಿಂಗ ಪುಷ್ಪ ಮರ

Originally from the Americas - identified as sacred tree sometimes. Flowers resemble nāga hood over a white stigma as Lingam, grown at Shiva temples.

Plant produces indigotin or indirubin. Fruit edible but usually not consumed as ill-smelling.

...Listonsche Amputationsmesser ist nach ihm benannt, von Wundhygiene hielt er nicht viel bzw. sich fern. 1846 amputierte er in nur 25 Sekunden (er wurde mit dem Alter schneller, kann man sich in heutigen Zeiten gerne mal ein Beispiel dran nehmen! Hrm.), entfernte...

Roseate Spoonbill

The engraving from Cornelis Bloemaert is titled "The Wise Owl", and was made around 1625. You see an own with specs standing on a book next to a candle. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1945-0512-17

The wise owl. This engraving of 1625 features a comment on the art of being an ignorant. A short 🧵 for #skystorians.

Photograph of a yellow flower, about 50cm height on a single stem. Beneath some yellow green blossoms, pulses are forming. The poisonous weed grows in tropical plantation or garden on a poor soil red brown from iron oxides.

Crotalaria retusa:
devil-bean, rattleweed, shack-shack, or wedge-leaf rattlepod.
Poisonous from pyrrolizidine alkaloids for birds and large mammals - can kill a horse.
Name refers to rattle/castagnette-like sound of its dry grains in pulses.

The occupations of the 12 months
#medievalcalendar
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 210; Collection of astronomical-computistic and scientific texts; 818 CE; Salzburg area; f.91v

YouTube video by Lauma Skride - Topic Das Jahr, 12 Charakterstücke für Forte-Piano: September

Remembering and already missing the golden September.
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: The Year: September.
Lauma Skride . #classicalmusic
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This White-tailed Kite is a type of raptor with a white head and red eyes and gray and black body feathers. It was sitting in a small brown tree with many branches set against a gray sky in Petaluma, California.

Today's bird is a pretty #White-tailedKite in Petaluma, CA (2022). A pair of them liked to sit in small trees at Shollenberger Park. Their faces and red eyes have a certain alien look 👀👽

#birds #raptors #kites #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #Olympus #NorCal @robcrank68.bsky.social

two people on a beach fishing, in the background an unfinished suspension bridge

Fishermen on Baker Beach as the Golden Gate Bridge is under construction c 1936

THYRDE MYNSTRELLE. Whanne Autumpne blake and sonne-brente doe appere, With hys goulde honde guylteynge the falleynge lefe, Bryngeynge oppe Wynterr to folfylle the yere, Beerynge uponne hys backe the riped shefe; Whan al the hyls wythe woddie sede ys whyte; Whanne levynne-fyres and lemes do mete from far the syghte; Whann the fayre apple, rudde as even skie, Do bende the tree unto the fructyle grounde; When joicie peres, and berries of blacke die, Doe daunce yn ayre, and call the eyne arounde; Thann, bee the even foule, or even fayre, Meethynckes mie hartys joie ys steynced wyth somme care. glossary: blake [ naked sonne-brente [ sun-burnt guylteynge [ gilding folfylle [ fulfill levynne-fyres [ flashing lightnings lemes [ meteors rudde [ red fructyle [ fertile peres [ pears eyne [ eye even [ evening steynced [ stained

Romantic Landscapes (23/n)
#Chatterton #RomanticLandscapes

An autumn landscape by Thomas Chatterton - with an element of fraud - from 'Ælla / A Tragycal Enterlude'.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison American, born 1968 (Robert) and 1964 (Shana), Reclamation, A work made of photogravure.

Reclamation, by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
American, born 1968 (Robert) and 1964 (Shana)
2003

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184044

An enterior of an early modern book shop, printed in 1667. You see a man working at a writing desk in a room full of boxes.

Before this thread takes off, dear nowadays book buyers, be reminded that the images of book shops are taken from different editions of "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" (Visible World in Pictures) from John Amos #Comenius. The 1st edition is from mid 17th century.

Did I mention yet the many boxes?

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Did I mention the many boxes yet? Book shops were full of them. Full of boxes like here: bsky.app/profile/dbel...

What might have been in all these boxes, dear booksellers of the past? Paper sheets (likely), inkpots (maybe), and what else? More unbound books waiting for a bookbinder?

8/

A few whom waning toil reprieves Thread the forests sea of leaves Where the pheasant loves to hide And the darkest glooms abide Beneath the old oaks mossd and grey Whose shadows seem as old as they Where time hath many seasons won Since aught beneath them saw the sun. Within these brambly solitudes The ragged noisy boy intrudes To gather nuts that ripe and brown As soon as shook will patter down Thus harvest ends its busy reign And leaves the fields their peace again Where autumns shadows idly muse And tinge the trees with many hues Amid whose scenes I’m feign to dwell And sing of what I love so well John Clare, from 'September' in _The shepherd's calendar_

Romantic Landscapes (10.2/n)
#Clare #RomanticLandscapes

John Clare, from September in
_The Shepherd's Calendar_

Nature now spreads around in dreary hue A pall to cover all that summer knew Yet in the poets solitary way Some pleasing objects for his praise delay Something that makes him pause and turn again As every trifle will his eye detain The free horse rustling through the stubble land And bawling herd boy with his motly band Of hogs and sheep and cows who feed their fill Oer cleard fields rambling where so ere they will The geese flock gabbling in the splashing fields And quacking ducks in pondweeds half conseald Or seeking worms along the homeclose sward Right glad of freedom from the prison yard While every cart rut dribbles its low tide And every hollow splashing sports provide The hedger stopping gaps wi pointed bough Made by intruding horse and blundering cow The milk maid tripping on her morning way And fodderers oft tho early cutting hay Dropping the littering forkfulls from his back Side where the thorn fence circles round the stack The cotter journeying wi his noisey swine Along the wood side where the brambles twine Shaking from dinted cups the acorns brown And nutters rustling in the yellow woods Scaring from their snug lairs the pheasant broods And squirrels secret toils oer winter dreams Picking the brown nuts from the yellow beams And hunters from the thickets avenue In scarlet jackets startling on the view Skiming a moment oer the russet plain Then hiding in the colord woods again

Romantic Landscapes (10.3/n)
#Clare #RomanticLandscapes

John Clare, from October in
_The Shepherd's Calendar_

In 1820s Paris, a bizarre fashion craze ~ "giraffomania" (typically, yellow with dark spots) ~ was inspired by a celebrity giraffe from Africa who walked across France to meet the King www.artinsociety.com/the-art-of-g...