Spitzer's Pleiades
pleiades, or the seven sisters, by spitzer. (image credit: spitzer)
Labels: pleiades, spitzer space telescope, star cluster
posted by Zosia A. C. Krusberg at
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
pleiades, or the seven sisters, by spitzer. (image credit: spitzer)
Quotation
fifty thousand german miles up in the ether lies the island of levania. the road to it from here or from it to this earth is seldom open. when it is open, it is easy for our kind, but for transporting men it is assuredly most difficult and fraught with the greatest danger to life. we admit to this company nobody who is lethargic, fat, or tender. on the contrary, we choose those who spend their time in the constant practice of horsemanship or often sail to the indies, inured to subsisting on hardtack, garlic, dried fish, and unappetizing victuals. we especially like dried-up old women, experienced from an early age in riding he-goats at night or forked sticks or threadbare cloaks, and in traversing immense expanses of the earth.
- johannes kepler, somnium (1611)
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