{"id":801,"date":"2011-06-13T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/?p=801"},"modified":"2011-07-26T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:02:31","slug":"celestial-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/13\/celestial-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Celestial Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/kendallplanets1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-802\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/kendallplanets1-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/kendallplanets1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/files\/2011\/06\/kendallplanets1.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a>Telescopic images taken from <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"Bibliography\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/27\/bibliography\/\"><em>Uranography; or, a Description of the Heavens <\/em>(1844)<\/a>. Reproductions like these were among the first widely circulated images of celestial bodies beyond the earth. They created a sense among educated nonspecialists of the wonder, strangeness, and variability of cosmic objects. <a title=\"Lord Byron\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/07\/lord-byron\/\">Byron&#8217;s<\/a> lyrical description<\/strong>&#8212;<strong>in <em>Cain<\/em> (1821)<\/strong>&#8212;<strong>of the earth seen from outer space\u00a0<em> <\/em>represents one of the first poetic attempts to imagine an interplanetary point of view:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Is yon our earth?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> . . . <\/em><br \/>\n<em> Can it be?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Yon small blue circle, swinging<\/em><br \/>\n<em> in far ether,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> With an inferior circlet near it<\/em><br \/>\n<em> still?<\/em><strong> (II, i)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telescopic images taken from Uranography; or, a Description of the Heavens (1844). Reproductions like these were among the first widely circulated images of celestial bodies beyond the earth. They created a sense among educated nonspecialists of the wonder, strangeness, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/2011\/06\/13\/celestial-bodies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33105],"tags":[33135,33148,33147],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-topics","tag-astronomy","tag-planets","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/romnat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}