#pytheas

[unbfacts]

Around 325 BC, Greek sailor Pytheas from Marseille sailed far enough north to give Greeks their first written look at Britain and probably Scotland. He also described Arctic waters and a land called Thule, where summer days barely ended. Back home, many people thought he lied.

[quiltofstars]

Copernicus crater on the Moon // Thomas Mollier

Click below to read up on some of the many craters, maria, and montes in this image!

To the north in this image is Mare Imbrium ("Sea of Showers"). Three lunar missions have landed here: the Soviet Luna 17 in 1970, the American Apollo 15 in 1971, and the Chinese Chang'e 3 in 2013. To the south in this image is Mare Insularum ("Sea of Islands").

Separating the two seas is the mountain range Montes Carpatus, named after the Carpathian Mountains in central and southeastern Europe.

There are many craters in this image. The largest one in the center is Copernicus crater named after Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), a Prussian astronomer who's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium revolutionized modern thinking, placing the Sun at the center of the universe rather than the Earth.

In no particular order, the other craters are:

Lansberg crater, named after Flemish astronomer Johan Philip Lansberge (1561-1632) who published tables predicting planetary positions.

Reinhold crater, named for German astronomer Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553) who produced a catalog of stars.

Hortensius crater, named for Dutch astronomer Maarten van den Hove (1605-1639) who developed a method for measuring the diameters of the planets from telescopic observations.

Fauth crater, named for German astronomer Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (1867-1941) who created detailed maps of the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Gambart crater, named for Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart (1800-1836) who recorded observations of Jupiter's moons and discovered 13 comets.

Stadius crater, named for Flemish astronomer Jan van Ostaeyen (1527-1579) who published tables of planetary positions.

Eratosthenes crater, named for the ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 - 195 BC) who was the first to calculate the Earth's circumference.

Gay-Lussac crater, named for the French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) who was the person who discovered that water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.

Draper crater, named for the American astronomer Henry Draper (1837-1882) who was a pioneer of astrophotography.

Wallace crater, named for the English explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) who independently discovered the theory of evolution and explored the Amazon.

Pytheas crater, named for the Greek geographer Pytheas of Massalia (c. 350 - 306 BC) who explored northern Europe in 325 BC.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 17: The Library of Alexandria (Miscellaneous Edition)

If you could only save one item from the Library of Alexandria, what would it be?

Euripides' lost play Hippolytos Kalyptomenos (Hippolytus Veiled)

The Twelve Tables

Lost Egyptian Religious Texts

Author of which no mention survives in any source

The Sibylline Books

Complete works of Stesichorus

Lycophron's Lost Tragedies

Xenocles' Plays

Mark Antony’s On Drunkenness

Pytheas' On the Ocean

Ctesias’s Persica

A Complete copy of Tacitus’s Annals

Voting ended onAug 26, 2023

I welcome your suggestions for both Library of Alexandria and other lost works of World Literature and History, as there will be future polls.

[loneberry]

“When Pytheas journeyed to the seas north of Iceland in 330 B.C., he spoke of the mare pigrum, a sluggish, congealed sea.”

“That over-mind seems a cap, like water, transparent, fluid yet with definite body, contained in a definite space. It is like a closed sea-plant, jellyfish or anemone.

Into that over-mind, thoughts pass and are visible like fish swimming under clear water.”

(Rachel Carson / Margaret Small / H. D.)

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[almaattano]

17 / Riley Yu’s quarters / Prey: Mooncrash / Arkane Studios / 2018

[plattkaefer]

guess I’ll post the sketch for now bc it’ll take me ages to finish the lines hhHh any way this is our dnd party [Insert Will Smith pose meme]

[tinyshe]

On the Ocean: The Famous Voyage of Pytheas

Sometime around 330 BCE, Pytheas, a little-known Greek merchant, embarked on an astonishing voyage. It was a voyage that would take him far