#terror adjacent

[cockroachesunite]

this is the image in my mind every time i read one of his letters btw

(Terror version)

[dogeared-euclid]

Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby Dick

This is Not My Article, but I would like to send a heartfelt thank you to Sarah B. Hart for the scholarship. Which it's 30 pages on Melville's textual mathematics enthusiasm!

The writing does contain context for both Melville fans without much math and math fans without much Melville (therefore math and Melville for the bystander as well).

It also describes contemporary math textbooks and therefore refers to "tables of units to help you work out the number of scruples in a dram, or the number of hogsheads in a pipe." (Seriously, words people, get in here for the vocabulary, it is a time.) Also, everyone say thank you calculators that none of us has to calculate fourth roots by hand anymore. Etc.

[slow-burn-sally]

I was reading Fitzjames' letter describing Harry Goodsir, and it struck me that Goodsir must have been autistic. Fitzjames refers to Goodsir as having a "low, hesitating, monotonous" tone of voice, as walking "upright on his toes" and as keeping his hands "tucked up in each jacket pocket".

Even more telling is how Fitzjames describes Goodsir as being "in ecstasies" over some sort of whale blubber substance, and how he loved making detailed drawings of "the insides" of wild life.

Welcome to the community, Harry Goodsir, you tip toe walking, t-rex arm having, natural sciences nerd.

[brainyraccoons]

cheeky little Graham~

a flash commission for our lovely Katie aka @cmdrgore!! ✨❄️

[littlebear2671]

If you've ever seen my silhouette project you may know I've spent some time replicating the handwriting of French revolutionaries in cross stitch. So when I got all these signatures of Edward Little, my mother suggested I do the same. And here is the first attempt (plus the terror muster signature I was trying to replicate for reference):

I will be trying to improve on this of course as this was just a quick attempt (all of 2 and a half hours including making the pattern). If you'd like the pattern though, it's under the cut.

I made it in 28 count stitched one over one as i think this looks more cohesive but of course you can make it in whatever you'd like

[full-of-terrors]

Sad Boat Books for Sad Boat People

Nautical history and polar exploration non-fiction from recs on tumblr by @jesslovesboats

Credit for the list to @jesslovesboats

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Had a Facebook marketplace adventure today with @crowtoed to pick up an 1855-80s(?) era ship's compass for a shockingly good price.

[maedhrus]

the strangest finding of tonight's research is that john irving was related through marriage to the guy that wrote his memorial sketch (his niece married bell’s son)

family record of lewis irving (side note but the fact that lewis named his only son ‘john’, maybe for his brother who was missing kinda breaks my heart!):

family record of benjamin bell (the author/editor of the memorial sketch):

family record of isabella irving and robert bell: