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How the new astronomy obscured the traditional night sky
- xtiansimon 8y agoJohn Keats: [Isaac Newton] destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism. In the article Haworth describes at several points the language of diverse people describing the heavens. The advances of science wipe away old romantic notions from our culture. Here is an exhibition catalog with a similar theme. Artistic works are shown to shift away from imagining the heavens, because, the theory goes, science shows us the heavens so clearly--like photography's effect on painting. Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde. Ed. Clair, J. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (1999) https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtlPwAACAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=tAtlPwAACAAJ
- labster 8y ago> This same moon was for the Japanese what held the waters of life (silimizi) and the waters of rejuvenation (bakamizi). Those are two words I don't even know how to spell in Japanese kana, so I can't look it up. I'm starting to wander how much of this article was invented.
- krallja 8y agoThey appear to possibly be using a nonstandard transliteration for English-language publications; possibly Nihon-shiki? And you’re right; these words appear to be nonsense.