#sy barlowe

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Seashores: A Guide to Animals and Plants Along the Beaches. Written by Herbert S. Zim. Illustrated by Dorothea & Sy Barlowe. 1955.

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Love your blog!! I was wondering if you happen to have any minnow or tiny fish pictures? Thanks!

1.) The Minnow Family-- Chubs, Dace, Minnows, and Shiners. Illustrated by Dot & Sy Barlowe. 1976.

2.) Bakufu Ohno, Asian Minnows, 1939

3 + 4.) Aquarium Book for Boys and Girls. Written/illustrated by Alfred Powell Morgan, 1964

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Seashores: A Guide to Animals and Plants Along the Beaches. Written by Herbert S. Zim. Illustrated by Dorothea & Sy Barlowe. 1955.

[antiqueanimals]

Seashores: A Guide to Animals and Plants Along the Beaches. Written by Herbert S. Zim. Illustrated by Dorothea & Sy Barlowe. 1955.

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From Animals: the Strange and Exciting Stories of Their Lives by Bertel Bruun. Published in 1972 and illustrated by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe.

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Review of 'Illustrating Nature'

Review of ‘Illustrating Nature’

Illustrating Nature: How to Paint and Draw Plants and Animals by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe is a comprehensive guide to depicting nature in a variety of media. A handy reference guide for beginning and experienced artists, it covers equipment, materials and techniques in a thorough way.

I received a copy of this book as a gift, and I highly recommend it. I give it five stars.

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What we Know about Neptune

To contrast with the amazing amount we now know about Neptune, as just described in the reblog from my webfriend, here’s the summary from my first astronomy book by Sy Barlowe published in the 1950s.

“Neptune was discovered in 1846 and since then has not yet completed one trip around the Sun.  It takes 165 Earth years to make this journey, so we can see that Neptune will not be where it was first seen until the year 2011.  Neptune is thought of as a twin to Uranus, being very nearly the same size, with a diameter of 33,000 miles, but with its two moons it is about 2,793 million miles from the Sun.  It receives only about one nine-hundreth as much heat and light as does the Earth.”

Our knowledge has been transformed over the last 60 years.

(01/06/2016)

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What we Used to Know about Pluto

As New Horizons approaches former planet Pluto, the Web Party will feature a few Pluto related posts.  This one quotes my first astronomy book, written in the 1950s by Sy Barlowe.  Then there’s a reblog “Seven Myths of Pluto”, which covers what we know now.  I’ll also reprint the two part Mythical Planets series before New Horizons makes its rendevous next month.  Anyway, Sy Barlowe wrote:

“Pluto, at 3,670 miles, is the farthest planet from the Sun in the entire solar system.  Not much larger than Mercury, it has a diameter of 3,600 miles and takes 248 Earth years to make its trip around the Sun.  Pluto was discovered in 1930 and is very difficult to see.

It must be so cold that if it had any atmoshere it would probably be frozen solid.  We do not know for certain if there are any planets beyond Pluto; if there are, our present telescopes would have a hard job finding them.”

(13/06/2015)