messier object

man how can you talk about Goethe categorizing things and be like “oh I’ll just talk about that w/r/t Plato” and act like he’s just writing to Plato instead of in a rich contextual period of competing notions of categorization, Buffon and Linnaeus (who thought the Originary Fruit was a banana, because, well, duh) and St-Hilaire and whether man or beasts are stratified and whether or not man was created in the Divine Image and what these mean for thinking about How Should We Now Live well all that stuff.

it’s like talking about sales of television sets and saying “oh I’ll just talk about that w/r/t Plato”

# experience of modernity frustrations with philosophy natural philosophy difficulties of categorization type specimen stealing the international kilogram urpflanzen

Posted 1 year ago
nypl: “Preparing lunch in Imperial Airways liner “Scylla” …Full-course meals are served at the appropriate times, and light refreshments are available at all times.” Today’s flashback Friday takes a card from the Library’s interesting collection of cigarette cards from the Arents Cigarette Card collection - a nice reminder of air travel from days gone by. View Larger

nypl:

“Preparing lunch in Imperial Airways liner “Scylla”

…Full-course meals are served at the appropriate times, and light refreshments are available at all times.”

Today’s flashback Friday takes a card from the Library’s interesting collection of cigarette cards from the Arents Cigarette Card collection - a nice reminder of air travel from days gone by.

Reblogged 1 year ago from nypl 39 notes
His heart and his sensibility draw him irresistibly toward the city’s bright lights, beautiful women, fashion, luxury, its play of dazzling surfaces and radiant scenes; meanwhile his Marxist conscience wrenches him insistently away from these temptations, instructs him that this whole glittering world is decadent, hollow, vicious, spiritually empty, oppressive to the proletariat, condemned by history.

— from “Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets.” Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity.

Posted 1 year ago
the-star-stuff: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. Image 1: Lunar Craft lander Image 2: Locking mechanism Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole Image 5: Soyuz parachute container You can view the other photos here. the-star-stuff: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. Image 1: Lunar Craft lander Image 2: Locking mechanism Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole Image 5: Soyuz parachute container You can view the other photos here. the-star-stuff: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. Image 1: Lunar Craft lander Image 2: Locking mechanism Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole Image 5: Soyuz parachute container You can view the other photos here. the-star-stuff: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. Image 1: Lunar Craft lander Image 2: Locking mechanism Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole Image 5: Soyuz parachute container You can view the other photos here. the-star-stuff: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. Image 1: Lunar Craft lander Image 2: Locking mechanism Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole Image 5: Soyuz parachute container You can view the other photos here.

the-star-stuff:

Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program

The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander.

Image 1: Lunar Craft lander

Image 2: Locking mechanism

Image 3: Docking assembly with bolts

Image 4: Lunar Craft porthole

Image 5: Soyuz parachute container

You can view the other photos here.

Reblogged 1 year ago from itsfullofstars (Originally from the-star-stuff) 284 notes