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uwmspeccoll · 22 days

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Milestone Monday Eclipse Edition!

Today’s total solar eclipse will be the last of its kind visible from the contiguous United States until 2044! Even if your location is not on the path of totality and the weather forecast may not cooperate for ideal viewing, you can still expect some uncanny experiences as the moon passes between the sun and earth. The sky will darken like dawn or dusk and may confuse animals’ circadian clocks, temperatures will drop, and during totality viewers may be able to see planets accompanied by a 360-degree sunset.

In celebration of the day, we’re sharing chromolithographs from Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt by Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss (1837-1917). This pictorial astronomy atlas was published by J.F. Schreiber in 1888 and contains forty-one celestial chromolithographs, including the two shown here that capture the perfect eeriness and magic of a solar eclipse.

Happy eclipsing and remember to wear protective eclipse glasses while viewing!

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#milestone monday #solar eclipse #eclipse 2024 #chromolithograph #bilder-atlas der sternenwelt #edmund wiess #j.f. schreiber

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bala5 · 8 months

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Head of a Comet,

Detail of a chromolithograph from Edmund Weiss - 'Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt : Eine Astronomie für jedermann' (1888)

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s0irenic · 2 years

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Leonid Meteor Shower over Niagara Falls, 1833 - An illustration from Edmund Weiss, Bilder Atlas der Sternenwelt (Image Atlas of the Star World), published in 1888.

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promemorie · 2 years

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Leonid Meteor Shower over Niagara Falls, 1833An illustration from Edmund Weiss, Bilder Atlas der Sternenwelt (Image Atlas of the Star World), published in 1888.

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muspeccoll · 7 years

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Are you as excited about #Eclipse2017 as we are? It’s coming up in one week, and we’ll be able to see the entire event from anywhere in Columbia, Missouri. To celebrate, we’ve identified a few materials from our collections that deal with eclipses or astronomy, and this one is by far a staff favorite.

These beautiful lithographs are from Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt, a popular astronomy book published in Germany in 1888. Our Digital Services department digitized the entire book, and selections are available on our website at exhibits.lib.missouri.edu. Stay tuned - you'll be able to read the whole thing online at the HathiTrust soon!

QB65 .W4 1888

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uwmspeccoll · 9 months

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Milestone Monday

On this day, August 7, 1960, American actor David Duchovny was born in New York City. Beloved as FBI agent Fox Mulder on the long running television series The X-Files, Duchovny inspired audiences worldwide to want to believe in the supernatural. With the congressional UFO hearings fresh off the news cycle, if there was ever a moment to lean into Mulder’s ethos, it’s now!

As part of Special Collections' extensive comic collection, we hold several of The X-Files comics (a gift from our friend James Lowder) published by Topps Comics between 1995-98. The comics are a spin-off of the first season of the television series and are packed with all the dramatic pauses, spooky plot twists, and witty banter viewers are accustomed to. Topps intended to adapt every episode, but never made it into season two citing challenges with The X-Files creator Chris Carter who diligently scrutinized rough drafts.

The X-Files comics had a renowned staff of artists including Gordon Purcell (known for his Star Trek work), Charles Adlard, and cover artist Miran Kim. Our issues were written by Stefan Petrucha, John Rozum, and Wisconsinite Kevin J. Anderson. Their artistic interpretations of the series capture the actors’ deadpan humor and Scooby-Dooish stories, staking their claim within the comic world and placing The X-Files within publishing history. There is no shortage of collectibles for The X-Files fandom, but we are happy to share our few contributions with you in celebration of David Duchovny’s birthday.

We couldn't resist placing this David Duchovny action figure on the moon. The figure belongs to our department head Max, who keeps it in his office along with other dorky items, and the backdrop is a chromolithographic page spread from our copy of Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt, published in Esslingen bei Stuttgart by J. F. Schreiber in 1888. Photoshop credit goes to our department manager Alice.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

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--Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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uwmspeccoll · 5 years

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July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 on the Moon

Fifty years ago today, the Lunar Module “Eagle” landed on the Moon and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step foot on its surface. To commemorate this historic accomplishment, we present some chromolithographs of lunar imagery, including an imaginative view of Earth from the lunar surface, from Bilder Atlas der Sternenwelt, edited by Edmund Weiss, professor of astronomy at the University of Vienna, and published in Esslingen, Germany, by J. F. Schreiber in 1888. Weiss was also director of the Vienna Observatory, the interior and exterior of which are depicted on the book’s cover. There is also a lunar crater called Weiss that is named after him. Weiss died 52 years before the first moon landing. The 50 years between his death and Apollo 11 seems like a greater scientific expanse of time than the 50 years between Apollo 11 and our own time. We can only imagine what Herr Doktor Weiss would have thought of human’s first steps on the Moon.

#Anniversaries #Apollo 11 #moon landing #Edmund Weiss #Schreiber Verlag #Bilder Atlas der Sternenwelt #Vienna Observatory #Moon #lunar surface #Neil Armstrong #Buzz Aldrin #astronomy #chromolithographs #Yay chromoliths!

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uwmspeccoll · 3 years

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Science Saturday

This past Monday December 21st was the winter solstice and to celebrate the beginning of lengthening days and shortening nights we are featuring images of the sun from Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt, a pictorial atlas of astronomy by Edmund Weiss. This book was published in Esslingen by J.F. Schreiber in 1888 and contains 41 otherworldly chromolithographs.

The images of the sun include sunspots, spectrum of sunlight, solar prominences, and eclipses. We also included a lunar eclipse just because it had a wonderful wintery scene.

Edmund Weiss was an Austrian astronomer who became a professor at the University of Vienna in 1869 and director of the Vienna observatory in 1878. Weiss was also president of the Austrian Commission for Geodesy as well as a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. His main research interests concerned the determination of the orbits of comets, of minor planets, and of meteor showers. There is also a lunar crater called Weiss that is named after him.

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Science Saturday #Bilder-Atlas der Sternenwelt #Edmund Weiss #sun #winter solstice #solar #J.F. Schreiber #sunspots #chromolithographs #chromolithography #Yay chromoliths!#eclipse #sunlight #Astronomy #natural history #scientific illustration #Sarah Finn #sarah

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