Starting over, again. Science, history, books, etc.
I share books and other items I collect, one of my hobbies. I was a Jedi once, like my father before me.
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The cover of the book in the above post has an armorial binding with the school’s seal.
The book has a foldout plate with illustrations for its astronomy by lessons, including both the heliocentric Copernican and geocentric Ptolemaic models of the universe. For the latter, the author uses a splendid armillary sphere to illustrate.
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“Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region.”
Almost almost 60 degrees F, in the wintertime, in Antarctica. 😳
#climatecrisis 🌎 🌍
A letter from Collège Royal de Louis-le-Grand to a student named “the most industrious student
Month of December 1824” bound inside my copy of an early 19th century French textbook.
Founded in 1563, the school includes Poincaré, Hugo, Sartre, Delacroix, & Degas as some of its many notable alumni 📚💙
A letter from Collège Royal de Louis-le-Grand to a student named “the most industrious student
Month of December 1824” bound inside my copy of an early 19th century French textbook.
Founded in 1563, the school includes Poincaré, Hugo, Sartre, Delacroix, & Degas as some of its many notable alumni 📚💙
The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.
Correction: probably an Iris weevil Mononychus sp.
🦇 Last month, Alberta naturalist Brian Keating joined our team in the field as we captured bats, collected wing swabs, and photographed wings for our Alberta probiotic study.
Hear Brian's reflections on bat conservation and field research in this CBC interview. See the first comment for the link!⬇️
Sea surface temperatures are already surging to record high levels for this time of year in key El Niño monitoring areas.
➡️ Sign up for our next monthly state of the climate webinar to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also be talking about the hurricane season outlook.
Breaking: El Niño is officially here, and it could break records. NOAA is giving it a 63% chance of becoming one of the “largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...
Fiona McLees
Lukas Large
Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇
Zack Labe
Andrew Freedman
Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region
A letter from Collège Royal de Louis-le-Grand to a student named “the most industrious student
Month of December 1824” bound inside my copy of an early 19th century French textbook.
Founded in 1563, the school includes Poincaré, Hugo, Sartre, Delacroix, & Degas as some of its many notable alumni 📚💙
