Το σύμπαν της τέχνης και οι τέχνες τ' ουρανού

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Ολική έκλειψη Ηλίου, Τηλέμαχος Αθανασιάδης, 2009

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The Firmament, William Cullen Bryant, 1832

 

Ay! gloriously thou standest there,

Beautiful, boundless firmament !

That, swelling wide o'er earth and air,

And round the horizon bent,

With thy bright vault, and sapphire wall,

Dost overhang and circle all. --

Far, far below thee, tall gray trees

Arise, and piles built up of old,

And hills, whose ancient summits freeze

In the fierce light and cold.

The eagle soars his utmost height,

Yet far thou stretchest o'er his flight. --

Thou hast thy frowns- with thee on high

The storm has made his airy seat,

Beyond that soft blue curtain lie

His stores of hail and sleet.

Thence the consuming lightnings break,

There the strong hurricanes awake. --

Yet art thou prodigal of smiles --

Smiles, sweeter than thy frowns are stern,

Earth sends, from all her thousand isles,

A shout at their return.

The glory that comes down from thee,

Bathes, in deep joy, the land and sea. --

The sun, the gorgeous sun is thine,

The pomp that brings and shuts the day,

The clouds that round him change and shine,

The airs that fan his way.

Thence look the thoughtful stars, and there

The meek moon walks the silent air. --

The sunny Italy may boast

The beauteous tints that flush her skies,

And lovely, round the Grecian coast,

May thy blue pillars rise.

I only know how fair they stand

Around my own beloved land. --

And they are fair- a charm is theirs,

That earth, the proud green earth, has not,

With all the forms, and hues, and airs,

That haunt her sweetest spot.

We gaze upon thy calm pure sphere,

And read of Heaven's eternal year. --

Oh, when, amid the throng of men,

The heart grows sick of hollow mirth,

How willingly we turn us then

Away from this cold earth,

And look into thy azure breast,

For seats of innocence and rest ! --

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Σκίτσο Άρη, Ιωάννης Φωκάς, 1954

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Light in the Sky, Alexander Gardere, 2009

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cHsPCAZlP4

 

When You Wish Upon A Star, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington, 1940

 

When you wish upon a star

Makes no difference who you are

Anything your heart desires

Will come to you

 

If your heart is in your dreams

No request is to extreme

When you wish upon a star

As dreamers do

 

Fate is kind

She brings to those who love

As sweet fullfillment of their secret drowns

Like a boat out of the blue

Fate steps in and see's you through

 

Moma when you wished upon a star

Your dreams come true

 

Fate is kind

She brings to those who love

As sweet fullfillment of their secret drowns

Like a boat out of the blue

Fate steps in and see's you through

 

Baby when you wish upon a star

Your dreams come true

When you wished upon a star

Makes no difference who you are

Your dreams come true

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Tron, Steven Lisberger, Walt Disney, 1982

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Luna 24 1/10, Roel Dekens

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Atomium, Χαρτονόμισμα 20 Βελγικών Φράγκων, 1964

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Meteor in the Desert Sky, Wally Pacholka, 2009

 

Διδυμίδης πάνω από την έρημο Mojave.

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Hyperion Magazine Cover # 5, Gary Frank- Marvel Comics, 2005

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Space Chess Set

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Lego Star Wars Chess Set, icgetaway, 2010

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Star Trek 3D Chess

 

Μπάμπη, ακόμη η σκακιέρα;

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Your Place in the universe, SKA South Africa

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Hymn to the North Star, William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878

 

The sad and solemn night

Has yet her multitude of cheerful fires ;

The glorious host of light

Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires ;

All through her silent watches, gliding slow,

Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

Day, too, hath many a star

To grace his gorgeous reign, as bright as they :

Through the blue fields afar,

Unseen, they follow in his flaming way :

Many a bright lingerer, as the eve grows dim,

Tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him.

And thou dost see them rise,

Star of the Pole! and thou dost see them set.

Alone, in thy cold skies,

Thou keep'st thy old unmoving station yet,

Nor join'st the dances of that glittering train,

Nor dipp'st thy virgin orb in the blue western main.

There, at morn's rosy birth,

Thou lookest meekly through the kindling air,

And eve, that round the earth

Chases the day, beholds thee watching there ;

There noontide finds thee, and the hour that calls

The shapes of polar flame to scale heaven's azure walls.

Alike, beneath thine eye,

The deeds of darkness and of light are done ;

High towards the star-lit sky

Towns blaze -- the smoke of battle blots the sun --

The night-storm on a thousand hills is loud --

And the strong wind of day doth mingle sea and cloud.

On thy unaltering blaze

The half-wrecked mariner, his compass lost,

Fixes his steady gaze,

And steers, undoubting, to the friendly coast ;

And they who stray in perilous wastes, by night,

Are glad when thou dost shine to guide their footsteps right.

And, therefore, bards of old,

Sages, and hermits of the solemn wood,

Did in thy beams behold

A beauteous type of that unchanging good,

That bright eternal beacon, by whose ray

The voyager of time should shape his heedful way.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, 1968

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Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982

 

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Σκίτσο Άρη, Ιωάννης Φωκάς, 1954

 

Άπό την πρόσληψη του στο αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών και μετά, ας πούμε ότι κάτι γνωρίζουμε.

 

http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%89%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%95._%CE%A6%CF%89%CE%BA%CE%AC%CF%82

Για τα πρώτα του σχέδια όμως; Γνωρίζουμε με τι οπτικα μέσα παρατηρούσε;

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Jupiter the Giant Planet, Paul Megener, 1956

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Saturn Where the Rings are Things, Paul Megener, 1956

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Uranus Down is Up, Paul Megener, 1956

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Neptune The Last Gas Planet, Paul Megener, 1956

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Pluto the little Planet, Paul Megener, 1956

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Earth the Blue Planet, Paul Megener, 1956

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The Moon, Paul Megener, 1956