Translation of Light Astrology

The heavens above and the books below

BL Burney 275; Scholastic miscellany incl. Priscian, Cicero, Boethius, Aristotle, Euclid, Adelard of Bath, Ptolemy, translated by Gerard of Cremona; between 1309 and 1316 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.391r

are you selling these? I have some booklets to trade

looks good. Love to see some analog style graphics when most things look so bland and digital

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

ICE in Charlotte. The guy in the headlock is a restaurant worker. Barbarians.

Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.

Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Josef Albers Foundation, Inc., 1991 © 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803

Trump’s regime so far:
✅ Racketeering
✅ Money laundering
✅ Murder
✅ Embezzlement
✅ Fraud
✅ Kidnapping
✅ Treason
✅ Terrorism
✅ Criminal conspiracy to coverup child rape and human trafficking

Time for #Impeachment again!

super cool

Spiritually, this is a 1980s arcade game character.

✒️ Ahmed Kaşif Efendi

✒️ A Wall Panel, 1789 “Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler passing along the road. Regard yourself as one of the inhabitants of the graves. When you reach the morning, do not expect the evening for yourself; and when you reach the evening, do not expect the morning for yourself.”

West limb of the Sun: magnetic loops, dancing filaments, M3.1 flare, brightening, post-eruptive arcades, coronal rain

YouTube video by Glasgow Museums A 19th century model of the solar system | Fulton's Orrery | Collection Highlights | Kelvingrove

Fulton started the orrery in 1833 with these known planets, moons & asteroids

Earth - Moon
Asteroids: Vesta, Juno, Pallas, Ceres
Jupiter - Ganymede, Calisto, Europa, Io
Saturn - Titan, Rhea, Iapetus, Mimas
Uranus - Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel

🔭 #histsci
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbha...

How Scholars Cracked a Medieval Alchemist’s Secret Code Written in a puzzling Latin cipher, it contains his formula for eternal life.

During Q&A, Piorko alludes to a previous collaboration w/Lang that culminated in the decryption of a polyalphabetic substitution cipher in Arthur Dee's alchemical notebook (Sloane MS 1902).

Here's the full story courtesy of @atlasobscura.com: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/med... #HSS2025 #alchemy

Albert Hofmann with a model of the LSD molecule in 1943 © Novartis corporate archive

87 years ago, on the 16th of November 1938, LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman with the goal of obtaining a respiratory and circulatory stimulant with no effect on the uterus. Hoffman also discovered LSD's psychedelic effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting it. #otd 🗃️

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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Miri wearing a sweater vest over a black turtleneck. The vest design is orange Greek key designs with mini red figure style gorgons dancing across it. It’s super cool.

A screenshot of Classics Nerds website showing several designs of jumpers, cardigans, and sweater vests in Classics-inspired designs and multiple colourways

A screenshot of Classics Nerds website showing several designs of jumpers, cardigans, and sweater vests in Classics-inspired designs and multiple colourways

A screenshot of Classics Nerds website showing several designs of jumpers, cardigans, and sweater vests in Classics-inspired designs and multiple colourways

Just dropping in with a PSA that @greekmythcomix.bsky.social new sweater designs absolutely SLAP and you’ve got until next weekend to order them for Christmas arrival.

Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.

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Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.

The Tiger by Nael, age 6 From They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤

Figure B Diagram of the Cosmic Egg, an ellipse shape with arrows along the outside labeled “direction of time-space evolving” and “point where flow of time-space turns towards opposite pole of ovoid.” Inside the shape are parts labeled universal hologram, black hole, white hole, and nucleus.

What if we kissed inside the CIA cosmic egg 🫣🫦

Trumpactiontracker.info

It’s got a lot of, well, info on Trump’s actions.

sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad

sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars

a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

I really hope that when this ends— because it IS going to end— every last person responsible for these abominable abuses of power rots in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.

No one who participates and profits from it has any business being accepted by polite society ever again.

Nice job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

2/2 Eying you, also with her spare eyes, from 1625: Saint Lucy. By Francisco de Zurbarán.

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