#trouvelot

[toutpetitlaplanete]

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot - Leonid Meteor Shower, 1868

[lafflanes]

gave some of my side toons new accessories :]

[californiastatelibrary]

An eclipse you don't need special glasses to look at? Yes, it's possible — come to the State Library to look at these incredible Trouvleot Astronomical Drawings, which include this beautiful solar eclipse!

To learn more about Trouvelot's Astronomical Drawings, visit: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882/

(Our Trouvelot collection does not come with European Gypsy Moths.)

[majesticprints]

The Great Comet of 1881

From the “Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings 1881-1882”.

10% off all prints with code TUMBLR

[hydraprisma]

The planet Saturn. Observed on November 30, 1874, at 5h. 30m. P.M. Trouvelot E. L.

[mauvais--sang]

"The November Meteors", from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)

[huntingtonlibrary]

Okay, so E.L. Truvelout didn’t just create beautiful, astronomical illustrations (like the ones on view now in “Radiant Beauty”) - he ALSO published this manual filled with scientific observations for each celestial subject. Here are his notes on The Planet Jupiter, observed on Nov. 1, 1880, at 9:30 p.m.

key passage:

“Two of Jupiter’s four moons present bright disks near the planet’s western limb, and cast their shadows far eastward on the disk, that of the “second satellite” falling upon the Red Spot. On the Red Spot are seen in addition two small black spots, no explanation of which can yet be offered.” 

....WE HAVE AN EXPLANATION YOU GUYS

images:

E. L. Trouvelot (1827–1895), observations notes on The Planet Jupiter from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings Manual, published in 1882 as a companion to his series of astronomical lithographs.

E. L. Trouvelot (1827–1895), The Planet Jupiter (details), 1881, color lithograph, 25 ¾ × 32 ¾ in. Jay T. Last Collection, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Gif’d by The Huntington.

[conformi]

Étienne Leopold Trouvelot, Aurora Borealis, The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1882 VS Kiyonori Kikutake, Civic Hall, Miyakonojo, Japan, 1966