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🎨 All art shown is original or a reproduction with original added historically inspired artwork, images are for sale on the website. See link in bio. 🎈 Lofty Ambitions 7th January 1610, the Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and ‘father of Science’, Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter. The very next day the German astronomer Simon Marius. also independently discovers the same three moons which he names Io, Europa and Ganymede. 7th January 1785, the first balloon flight across the English Channel by and John Jeffries. Two days later in 1793, Jean Pierre Blanchard also pilot’s the first balloon flight in the US lifts in Philadelphia. The public interest in Balloon flight, created ‘Balloonomania’ in the late 18th century, which continued into the 19th. Images of balloons were depicted on collectibles such as plates, cups, clocks, snuff boxes, and bracelets; as well as in Romantic poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley. William Blake also mocked the balloon fascination in his unfinished “An Island in the Moon”, written in 1784. 9th January 1848, death of German pioneering astronomer Caroline Herschel, brother of fellow astronomer William Herschel. Caroline Herschel was the first woman to gain a salary as a scientist, as well as discovering a number of comets, including 35P/Herschel–Rigollet which bears her name; she was also the first woman in 1828, to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. The C. Hershel crater on the Moon is named after her. Continued in the comments #galileo #historyofastronomy #balloonmania #hotairballoon #percyshelley #williamblake #tarotillustration #tarotart #tarotartist #tarotdecks #steampunktarot #oddhistory #weirdhistory #strangehistory #carolineherschel #williamherschel #historicalillustration #darkhistory #darkillustration #edgarallenpoe #greatmoonhoax #lifeonthemoon #tarothistory #balloonart #18thcenturyart #astronomyart #astronomylover #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3kkPGHx5r/?igshid=1etqh2yc3xu6p

[borgesianbox]

You ever think about how Byron is probably in hell right now climaxing to the fact that people are still talking about him in 2019?

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Alleged fragments of Percy Shelley's cremated skull. They sure do look like dry leaves. #byssheplease #itsalivefrankensteinat200 #percyshelley #percybyssheshelley #cremains (at The Morgan Library & Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZDX_8FK8z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xl1xs56mmcqe

[simoneandherbooks]

“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep have fallen on you- Ye are many-they are few.” - Percy Shelley . A poem befitting my current mood. Who do you look to for soul nourishment? . . . . #percyshelley #percyshelleyquote #ootd #poetry #bookworm #awildbookishlife #bookphoto #bookblog #bookblogger #booklove #currentlyreading #currentlyfeeling #artimitateslife #dreamers #badassbookbabes (at New Jersey)

[leafpoet]

To the Moon [fragment]

Percy Shelley (1792–1822).

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,— And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

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13th November 1785, birth of Lady Caroline Lamb, best known as the author of Glenarvon, and for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812, which resulted in her fall and ostracized her from society. After Byron ended the affair, she took her revenge on him by writing the novel in 1816. In the story the character Glenarvon corrupts the innocent young bride Calantha (Caroline herself) leading to their mutual ruin and death. In the book Byron is characterized as the rakish Lord Ruthven, the same name of the character used by John William Polidori in his story ‘The Vampyre’, published anonymously and attributed to Byron in 1819. Polidori, alongside Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and her sister in law Claire Clairemont; were part of the ghost story competition held at the Villa Diodati, during the year without a summer in 1816. Alongside Polidori’s story, Mary Shelley’s story, would be published in 1818 as Frankenstein. Lamb is attributed to the famous epitaph when she described Byron as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." 13th November 1792, birth of Edward John Trelawny, English sailor, traveler, author and friend to Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and writer Mary Shelley, and her half sister Claire Clairmont. Trelawney arranged the funerals for both Percy Shelley in 1822, and Byron’s in 1824. Legend says that as Percy Shelley’s body was being cremated Trelawney reached into the fire and rescued Shelley’s heart before it burned. He then gave it to Mary, who kept it with her for 30 years until it was buried with their sun Percy Florence Shelley in 1889. Outliving all of the Romantic generation he retired to the countryside and wrote Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author in 1878. Continued in comments. #percyshelley #maryshelley #maryshelleysfrankenstein #gothicliterature #gothicliteratureart #vampire #vampires #vampirestyle #lordbyron #gothichistory #ofgraveconcern #tarot #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #tarothistory #johnwilliampolidori #vampireliterature #preraphaelite #18thcentury #19thcentury #illustration #illustrationartists #villadiodati #romanticpoets #history #gothicstyle #ladycarolinelamb #edwardjohntrelawny https://www.instagram.com/p/CHnagpoAUFG/?igshid=1w7klqd0m2zcw

[leafpoet]

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain

Percy Shelley (1792–1822).

The fitful alternations of the rain, When the chill wind, languid as with pain Of its own heavy moisture, here and there Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.

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Happy Birthday to Percy Bysshe Shelley Born on this day in 1792 Tarot card is from the Ofgraveconcern Industrial Sublime Tarot 1760 - 1848 Prints of the cards are available for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/industrialsublimetarot1760-1848 Follow at @ofgrave.concern for more tales and art from history #percyshelley #percybyssheshelley #19thcenturyromanticism #regencygothic #romanticpoets #romanticism #gothictales #maryshelley #percybysshe #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #historicalstory #historicalstories #gothichistory #shelleypoetry #poetsandwriters #frankenstein #maryshelleysfrankenstein #gothicromantic #gothicliterature #gothicliteratureart #gothictarot #tarotart #tarotillustration #gothicillustration #classicliterature #classicliteraturequotes #bornonthisday #bornonthisdate https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKJqK8HzMN/?utm_medium=tumblr