Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Flowers of the Sky

This is a wonderful collection of depictions of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars over a millennium. I saw the one below when I visited Bayeux last year.

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet
Source 

Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of
November 12-13, 1833,
from E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888) – Source

Image from J.J. Grandville’s Un Autre Monde (1844) – Source
Thanks Bruce!

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