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Tribute to Etienne Trouvelot
A Tribute to Etienne Trouvelot, Pioneering Astronomical Artist In the annals of astronomy, some names shine as bright as the stars they studied – Galileo, Hubble, Kepler. To that luminous list we must add Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, the French-born artist and astronomer whose exquisite drawings first opened the heavens to many a earthbound eye. With…
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A Tribute to Dr Thomas C. Van Flandern
I had the pleasure of meeting and dining with Dr Tom Van Flandern. A fine gentlemen and genius physicist / astronomer. It’s always the very experts you should be relying on in history that are admonished by lesser minds. Likewise Giordano Bruno was a famous astronomer who was burned at the stake in 1600 for…