
“Descending Toward the Moon” (1951) by Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986)

“Descending Toward the Moon” (1951) by Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986)
Ma tra tutti gli uomini grandi che sopra tal mirabile effetto di natura hanno filosofato, più mi meraviglio del Keplero che di altri, il quale, d’ingegno libero ed acuto, e che aveva in mano i moti attribuiti alla Terra, abbia poi dato orecchio ed assenso a predominii della Luna sopra l’acqua, ed a proprietà occulte, e simili fanciullezze. — Galileo, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (1632), Giornata Quarta.
• But among all the great men who have philosophized about this remarkable effect, I am more astonished at Kepler than at any other. Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips the motions attributed to the earth, he has nevertheless lent his ear and his assent to the moon’s dominion over the waters, to occult properties, and to such puerilities. — Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World-Systems, “Fourth Day”
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Do and Die — The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham-Smith (1953) (posted at O.-o.-t.-Ü)
• Liddell im Wörterland – Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (1843)
• Lunar or Later – Moon: From 4.5 billion years ago to the present: Owners’ Workshop Manual, David M. Harland (Haynes 2016)
• Headlong into Nightmare – Headlong Hall (1816) / Nightmare Abbey (1818)
• Twisted Tales – Biggles’ Big Adventures: Four Classic Stories Starring the British Empire’s Most Fearless Pilot Adventurer, Captain W.E. Johns (Sevenoaks 2007)
• Stop the Brott – staying the serial slaying of a sanguinivorous psychoanalyst
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• Vois la Reine – Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide, Peter Grego (Philip’s 2015)
• Gods of Fire – Volcano Discoveries: A Photographic Journey around the World, Tom Pfeiffer and Ingrid Smet (New Holland 2015)
• Chemical Tales – Rocks and Minerals, Ronald Louis Bonewitz (Dorling Kindersley 2012)
• Knyghtes of the Royalme – Malory: Works, ed. Eugène Vinaver (Oxford University Press 1977)
• Alfredo to Zinedine – Football’s Great Heroes and Entertainers, Jimmy Greaves with Norman Giller (Hodder & Stoughton 2007)
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