#william cunningham

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Small Man Hiking on Sand Dunes By William Cunningham

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Roman Balladine & Sula - The Secrets of Belly Dancing - Celestial Arts - 1972 (photos by Wlliam Cunningham)

[mrdirtybear]

'Portrait of William Cunningham (1849 - 1919)' as painted by Scottish painter William Strang. Cunningham was an economic historian, published author and an Anglican priest.

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

I wonder everyday about what William Cunningham wrote in his diary about the collision incident...

Something like

Stormy: the captains kissed and ships are now due to repair.

Or something?

[dastbatz]

The stinker

[laissezferre]

Ross

Crew of HMS Terror ––– Departure ––– Cape of Good Hope ––– Kerguelen Islands ––– Van Diemen's Land ––– First tour of the Antarctic: Discover

there's a new section in @tttack's crozier shrine about the antarctic expedition!! it's wonderful to see the multiple sources laid out so clearly. the bits that made my heart swell:

A similar wish list existed for the lieutenants, and among the candidates for the Terror was James Fitzjames, later of Franklin's North-West Passage attempt. Had the circumstances been different, Crozier might've been Fitzjames' Parry.

They [Crozier and Ross] have been messmates and intimate together.

By chance there was a new navy list which contained the promotion of four of the Officers of the expedition our own worthy Commander [Crozier] Posted at which we were all heartily glad.

The Captn informed me [Cunningham] he would write to Head Qrs with a View of Doing something for me.

I [Hooker] was sent by the Admiralty to Aylesbury to recover some instruments which he [Ross] had retained I found in the backyard of the house a huge pile of rubbish amongst which were the broken & unbroken empty bottles that contained his collections, the contents of course destroyed.

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[maximumphilosopheranchor]

In 1564 Roger Ascham wrote to Robert deprecating his lack of fluency in Latin and his neglect of other languages, accomplishment in which was vital to a courtier-diplomat. He was scornful of Robert’s preference for geometry rather than rhetoric: ‘I think you did yourself injury in changing Tully’s wisdom with Euclid’s pricks and lines’. Scholars were divided on the value of mathematical studies, or perhaps it would be truer to say they were concerned that such studies should be directed towards useful ends. Geometrical and arithmetical abstractions, according to Vives, ‘withdraw the mind from the practical concerns of life and render it less fit to face concrete and mundane realities’ and were only to be followed if they led to the understanding of ‘measurement, proportion, movement and [the] position of heavy weights’.  (..) Yet, however much the educationalists might pontificate, minds like Robert Dudley’s, which revelled in the divine mysteries of harmony, symmetry and pattern, were captivated by the rediscovered works of Euclid, Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy. Nor need Ascham and Vives have worried: it was interest in the new sciences, coupled with a love of adventure, which inspired Robert’s generation of young gentlemen to be the patrons and captains of the great era of Elizabethan maritime expansion. Indeed, one of the most important English works on navigation was dedicated to Robert Dudley as early at 1559. This was William Cunningham’s The Cosmographical Glass, containing the pleasant Principles of Cosmography, Geography, Hydrography, or Navigation. In it the author thanks his patron for ‘your Lordship’s encouragement of me to knowledge, both in words and most liberal rewards’ and praises him as one ‘which doth not only favour Science, but also [has] given her within your breast a resting place.’

Derek Wilson, Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1533 - 1588