Inverting Vision, History of Science + Exploration @InvertingVision
Writing about the history of science, exploration, and technology. https://t.co/Me2ioI1dx2 invertingvision.com Joined April 2022-
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In 1610, Galileo published Siderius Nuncius. It contained some the first drawings of the Moon as seen through a telescope. It seems to have been a rough sketch, since the features in the drawings don't seem to correspond with places on the actual lunar surface. #astronomy #Moon
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The first aerial photograph taken at night, shot by George Goddard over Rochester, N.Y. in 1925. Goddard detonated a flash bomb in the air to get the picture, which shook buildings and broke windows in the city.
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Under 30 minutes to the first attempt to conduct the maiden launch of Starship. youtube.com/watch?v=eN57x2…
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." - Aspley Cherry-Garrard, opening line of The Worst Journey in the World. #exploration #antarctica #history
One of the first particle accelerators, Ernest Lawrence's 1932 cyclotron, was 4.5 inches in diameter.
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OTD in 1781 William Herschel made his first observation of Uranus from the garden of his home in Bath. He initially thought it was a comet. Within months it would be confirmed that this "comet" has actually a planet, the first to be identified in modern times. @HerschelMuseum
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Our crew is suited up and on the way to Launch Complex 39A. At the launch site, the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft Endeavour are ready for the crew’s arrival. It is about three hours, 6 minutes until liftoff.
This week on History Highlights: New historic photographs from #antarctica, a story of sunken treasure that didn't make it into the series on Ponting, and bit of #space "archaeology." invertingvision.com/2023/02/28/his…
Herbert Ponting photographed the 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. He was particularly interested in contributing to scientific research on the expedition. Read a short introduction: invertingvision.com/2023/02/09/pho… #Antarctica #explore #photography #Histsci
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