{"id":15377,"date":"2021-09-03T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2021-09-02T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:27:41","slug":"1800s-astronomical-drawings-vs-modern-nasa-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/03\/1800s-astronomical-drawings-vs-modern-nasa-images\/","title":{"rendered":"1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. Modern NASA Images"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The New York Public Library has <a href=\"http:\/\/I love this post from the NYPL comparing astronomical drawings by E.L. Trouvelot done in the 1870s to contemporary NASA images.  Trouvelot was a French immigrant to the US in the 1800s, and his job was to create sketches of astronomical observations at Harvard College\u2019s observatory. Building off of this sketch work, Trouvelot decided to do large pastel drawings of \u201cthe celestial phenomena as they appear\u2026through the great modern telescopes.\u201d\">shared<\/a> some astronomical drawings by E.L. Trouvelot done in the 1870s, comparing them to contemporary NASA images. They write,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Trouvelot was a French immigrant to the US in the 1800s, and his job was to create sketches of astronomical observations at Harvard College\u2019s observatory. Building off of this sketch work, Trouvelot decided to do large pastel drawings of \u201cthe celestial phenomena as they appear\u2026through the great modern telescopes.\u201d<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-01.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"777\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-01.jpeg 1000w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-01-300x233.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-01-768x597.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02.jpeg 1000w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/trouvelot-astro-02-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/08\/1800s-astronomical-drawings-vs-modern-nasa-images\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Public Library has shared some astronomical drawings by E.L. Trouvelot done in the 1870s, comparing them to contemporary NASA images. They write, Trouvelot was a French immigrant to the US in the 1800s, and his job was to create sketches of astronomical observations at Harvard College\u2019s observatory. Building off of this sketch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15389,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15377\/revisions\/15389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}