Underwater (Photography)

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean

Arthur C. Clarke


Trent Parke

Sunday Favorites - The Pulse of Nature

In short I am convinced it is a most
ridiculous thing to go round the world,
when by staying quietly, the world
will go round with you

Charles Darwin



Yunfun Tan

Kim Keever - Imaginary Landscapes

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moon People

Pictures from the times when all the unknown places of the earth and the heavens still were crowded with fabulous creatures and imaginary landscapes

Scoperte fatte nella luna Sigr. Herschell, [1836]

While browsing some archives with historic scientific images I  found the picture above and below are some examples from this wonderful "portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purports to illustrate the "discovery of life on the moon." In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York Sun, claimed that the noted British astronomer Sir William Herschel had discovered life on the moon. Flora and fauna included bat-men, moon maidens (with luna-moth wings), moon bison, and other extravagant life forms. Locke proposed an expedition to the moon using a ship supported by hydrogen balloons."