Antique French Astronomical Book Plate: Gaseous Proturberances During 1860 Solar Eclipse antique spades with a wonderfully warm patina

with a wonderfully warm patina but no greening at all

as Smiley went on to earn her BA at Sarah Lawrence and to work as a painter and curator in NY until moving to Wellesley

and perfectly restrained

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This lovely baking dish makes me want to bake a quiche

Antique French Astronomical Book Plate: Gaseous Proturberances During 1860 Solar Eclipse antique spades with a wonderfully warm patinaI've been stalking antique prints book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late, and this is one of the most beautiful I've found. It portrays "proturberances gazeuses du soleil," which I believe are also known as prominences: large, bright, gaseous features extending outward from the Sun's surface in the photosphere. These were observed, and drawn, by French astronomer Warren de la Rue during the total solar eclipse in 1860 and how beautiful