August 02, 2006

The Illustrations of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. A wonderful astronomer and catastrophic entomologist.
posted by the quidnunc kid 17 years ago
  • I like those pictures. That blog is a fun site, too.
  • He really should have bred planets and drawn insects. Then we would only have meteors to fight off.
  • Guess he was related to the men responsible for this Then again he does have the astronomy to his credit
  • How does a website about gypsy moths not have a single photo of an actual moth??
  • No gypsies either!
  • [this rocks hard tasty ass]
  • That first picture of Jupiter looks like the Shoemaker-Levy9 comet impacts . . almost 100 years earlier . . ooooOOOOOooo!
  • Well, thank you, Trouvelot!
  • The first picture looks like a double shadow transit--the shadows of two of Jupiter's moons on the planet. I pulled out Celestia, and ran the time back to 1880-11-01 21:30, and it looks like the spot on the left is Io's shadow and the spot on the right is Europa's. Io and Europa themselves are the light dots on the left side of the shadows. (The next double shadow transit is this Monday at 5:08 AM UTC. Io and Europa.) Also, ))).
  • Oh well sure just pee all over my "Shoemaker-premonition-twilight-zoney" thing I had goin' on Mr-or-Ms double shadow transit celestia beepy click thing! Boy! I coulda been somebody instead of a bum which is what I am let's face it Charley
  • Why do his planets have intestines?
  • peacay's site is one of the most attractive places I visit - I am honoured, peacay, honoured, I say!
  • excellent stuff peacay - you should at least post that to the Self-Post thread!
  • petebest, I did!
  • He's Étienne Léopold Trouvelot He'll prove and groove and move a lot!
  • I tried waiting for Godot But his address I fogot.
  • ))) for an excellent post!!! The magnitude of his moth-borne doings has been such I'd no idea until now the [expletive judiciously deleted] man did anything else. Ach! If wishes were horses, then politicians and bureaucrats could be cursed to be prescient. But everyone at heart inclines to think - meddling makes it worse. So if we don't do anything it'll just go away. And then the moth is loosed. And the moon eats the sun. And the sky develops an unsightly crack. And this why Dread Chthulu stirs.