Over the weekend Tony and I went camping at New Germany State Park in Western Maryland. Saturday night there was a talk by the ranger about a B52 bomber that crashed there in 1964. It was one of twelve planes that was constantly aloft in the 1960s, carrying two nuclear bombs. The pilots had sealed [...]
Eclipses
On October 14, 2023, there will be an annular eclipse of the sun which can be seen in the Western US. The following spring on April 8, 2024, there will be another eclipse visible in the east. NASA did a remarkable map. I can't get it large enough on this blog, but here's a URL [...]
Works in Progress
This post was meant to appear yesterday and I don't know why it didn't!! I am going to/already attending/returning from a funeral/memorial service in Minnesota for Ali Meyerhofer so I don’t have time to write more about Mary Orr Evershed at this moment. I will say about the book that George sent, that I’m glad [...]
More about Mary Evershed and Dante
I'm still reading Mary Evershed's own book about Dante and the early astronomers. She begins with a useful set of chapters explaining various theories and discussing Ptolemy. Part II is then her discussion of Dante. I'm not there yet. However, I did finish the biography that George sent me by Tracy Daugherty. Besides being interested [...]
The astronomers and Dante
George sent me a book called Dante and the Early Astronomer. It was published in 2019 and written by Tracy Daugherty, an English professor at Oregon State University. The book is about a woman named Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed. She, herself, wrote a book called Dante and the Early Astronomers. That 's' is important to [...]
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