#volvelle

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[haliotis94]

Postales Vintage de 1910

"Aquí tenemos un tipo inusual de postal vintage.

No, tus ojos no te engañan... la cola de este pavo real realmente se mueve y cambia. Su magia se debe a una rueda con patrones intercalada entre dos piezas de papel, ligeramente visible en la parte superior e inferior.

También existía una versión fantástica con una mariposa. Este tipo de rueda de papel movible se llama volvelle.

Y hubo una serie de estas mariposas volvelle: una roja para Pascua y una azul para Navidad. Forman parte de la Biblioteca Winterthur."

¿Qué es un "Volvelle"?

Como menciona el video, un volvelle es un tipo de gráfico de papel con partes rotatorias. Aunque en 1910 se usaban para estas hermosas postales, originalmente se inventaron en la época medieval para calcular fechas, fases lunares y hasta para la navegación.

[blanket-i]

TUMBLR BE READY

I'm currently working with a small team of friends for our internship on this NEW MOBILE GAME.

Expect adventure, friendship, romance, action and comedy. Travel with Volvelle and Charon across the various planets, saving and helping your new friends.

Find out who you are.

[houghtonlib]

We’re getting into the holiday spirit and unboxing our last packages before the break. We were delighted to receive this carefully boxed shipment from Daniel Crouch Rare Books bearing a very special item: an exceptionally deluxe 16th-century wall calendar with volvelle, finely-detailed coloring and gold highlights. Pictured here, hard at work, are Michael Pasternak of our Technical Services’ End-Processing team and Early Books and Manuscripts curatorial team, John Overholt and Sara Powell. Sound on for full plywood ASMR.

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 64 is a book of diagrams, many with moving parts, called volvelles, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach. Written in northern Italy, probably Padua, in the mid-16th century.

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[writer-at-the-table]

I want to make a volvelle calendar for the Jewish and secular calendars, but I have no idea how to design where the cutouts would go to make it work right

Are there any templates anyone knows about, or instructions on how to figure it out?

[historysurvivalguide]

Astronomy Inspired Design in Media: Part 17

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

End Credits (no spoilers)

I spy with my little eye: a lunar volvelle!

And it moves!

The two rotating arms can move independently. Each arm is distinguished at its base with icons for the sun and moon. A lunar volvelle device can be used to determine the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac by rotating the arms and comparing the final positions for a given day

A nice detail in the end credit volvelle is that the moveable arm for the sun is sitting on the bottom and is the larger of the two pieces. In a volvelle, this arm is used to indicate the current position of the sun along the zodiac. The moon arm sits on the top of the sun arm and indicates the position of the moon along the zodiac

Source: GIF

Typically a vovlelle is used to determine the relative positions of the sun and moon on a given day. It can also be used to determine the length of a given day, the altitude of the sun, or other astronomical features

These functions have earned the vovelle the title “astronomical paper computers”

Even the color scheme is similar to Heidelberg's Book of Fate from 1491. Which contains this rotatable disk for determining the hours of the day

Originally known as “Das Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch”

“Astronomy Inspired Design in Media” is Wednesday (as I find them)

[uispeccoll]

#VoicesfromtheStacks

The Star Gazer: Planisphere Poetry and Lunar Volvelle, both by Monica Ong

This week we are looking at two works by book artist Monica Ong. Ong is a 2nd generation Chinese-Filipino American who was born and raised in Chicago, IL.

The Star Gazer: Planisphere Poetry depicts the Chinese night sky from the northern hemisphere. It is based on the Soochow Astronomical Chart of 1193. This star chart holds small phrases of beautiful prose weaved around constellational lines to form the poetry within this piece. Taken directly from her Proxima Vera site, there are a few steps to read this structured poem:

“To view the stars, turn the disc to align the desired date with the hour of night. Face south and hold the planisphere overhead with the corner marked North facing north. The map will reveal a celestial poem that awaits you among the asterisms. Let the eyes wander and read aloud to someone dear.”

Ong not only wrote the poetry for this piece, but she also designed the art and construction of the book, including its typesetting. She used gold foil stamping, die cutting, and had it put together by a letterpress studio in Syracuse, New York.

We have another one of her items as well, Lunar Volvelle, which can be interpreted in any way you wish and viewed in our reading room!

Happy gazing. ⭐

-Matrice Y, Special Collections Jr. Olson Graduate Assistant