Το σύμπαν της τέχνης και οι τέχνες τ' ουρανού

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Le Marchand de Lunettes, Isidore Stanislas Helman, 1776

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

 

Η αντίληψη πως οι επιστήμονες χάνουν τις χαρές της ζωής, με τον έμπορο οπτικών να φλερτάρει την σύζυγο του ερασιτέχνη αστρονόμου, όσο εκείνος δοκιμάζει ένα τηλεσκόπιο.

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Looking at the comet till you get a criek in the neck, Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

 

Ο μεγάλος κομήτης του 1811, γνωστός και ως κομήτης του Ναπολέοντα, γέννησε μια παρατηρησιακή έξαψη. Η γκραβούρα μας θυμίζει να μην αμελούμε και τις απλές χαρές της ζωής, διότι εποφθαλμιούν άλλοι...

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Hear 'n Aid, Stars, 1985

 

Τα άστρα πλέον δεν δίνουν την λάμψη τους μόνο σε βασιλείς αλλά και είδωλα...

Αν δεν έχετε ακούσει αυτά τα solo, δεν έχετε ακούσει τίποτε.

Καλό ταξίδι Dio.

 

Hear 'n Aid Stars, 1985

 

 

Who cries for the children?

I do

 

Some time in the night

When you're feeling the cold

 

Take a look at the sky above you

 

Those are faces in the light

If the story were told

 

They are calling you, calling you

Yeah

We are magic in the night

 

We are shadow, we are light

 

We are forever you and I

 

We're stars

We're stars

 

We can be strong

We are fire and stone

 

And we all want to touch a rainbow

 

But singers and songs

Will never change it alone

We are calling you, calling you

 

We're the beating of a heart

The beginning we're the start

 

Forever we will shine

Yeah

 

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

We are magic in the night

We are shadow, we are light

We are forever you and I

 

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

We're stars, yeah

We're stars

We are shadow, we are light

We're stars

We are magic in the night

We're stars, oh yeah

We're stars

We're stars

We are magic in the night

We're stars

We are shadow, we are light

 

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're the magic

We're stars

We're stars

We're the beating of a heart

 

We're stars

Forever we will shine

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

 

 

Lyrics with Performers

 

(Ronnie James Dio)

Who cries for the children?

I do

 

(Dave Meniketti (Y&T)

Some time in the night

When you're feeling the cold

 

(Ronnie James Dio)

Take a look at the sky above you

 

(Rob Halford (Judas Priest)

Those are faces in the light

If the story were told

 

(Ronnie James Dio)

They are calling you, calling you

Yeah

We are magic in the night

 

(Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot)

We are shadow, we are light

 

(Dave Meniketti)

We are forever you and I

 

Chorus (vocal lead: Rob Halford)

We're stars

We're stars

 

(Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult)

We can be strong

We are fire and stone

 

(Paul Shortino (Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt)

And we all want to touch a rainbow

 

(Geoff Tate (Queensryche)

But singers and songs

Will never change it alone

We are calling you, calling you

 

(Don Dokken (Dokken)

We're the beating of a heart

The beginning we're the start

 

(Paul Shortino)

Forever we will shine

Yeah

 

Chorus (Paul Shortino, Don Dokken, Ronnie James Dio, Geoff Tate)

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

(Kevin DuBrow)

We are magic in the night

(Rob Halford)

We are shadow, we are light

(Geoff Tate)

We are forever you and I

 

Chorus (Dave Meniketti, Eric Bloom, Rob Halford)

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

We're stars, yeah

We're stars

We are shadow, we are light

We're stars

We are magic in the night

We're stars, oh yeah

We're stars

We're stars

We are magic in the night

We're stars

We are shadow, we are light

 

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're the magic

We're stars

We're stars

We're the beating of a heart

 

We're stars

Forever we will shine

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

We're stars

 

(1st Guitar Solo) - Graig Goldy/ Eddie Ojeda

(2nd Guitar Solo) - Vivian Campbell/ Brad Gillis

(3rd Guitar Solo) - Neal Schon/ George Lynch

(4th Guitar Solo) - Yngwie Malmsteen/ Vivian Campbell

(5th Guitar Solo) - George Lynch/ Carlos Cavazo

(6th Guitar Solo) - Brad Gillis/ Craig Goldy/ Buck Dharma

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My Star, Robert Browning, 1812-1889

 

All that I know

Of a certain star

Is, it can throw

(like an angled spar)

Now a dart of red,

Now a dart of blue;

Till my friends have said

They would fain see, too,

My star that dartles the red and the blue!

Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:

They must solace themselves with Saturn above it,

What matter to me if their star is a world?

Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

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Βασιλίσκος και Κόκκινος Πλανήτης, Babak Tafreshi, 2010

Το τοπίο αυτό στο Oraman του Κουρδιστάν μοιάζει να ανήκει στον Άρη, δεν νομίζετε;

APOD 10-6-10

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Τηλεσκόπιο 40 ποδών του Herschel, Caroline Herschel, προ του 1876

Χαρακτικό

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Le jeu de la sphere ou de l'univers selon Tyco Brahe, Vouillemont, Estienne, 1661

 

Επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι της εποχής, ένα είδος Astromonopoly

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Αχρωματικό 60mm, Owen Owens, 1800

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

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Old Gentleman going out to look for the Comet - sees something else, Hablot Knight Browne, 1830-1870

Κάρβουνο

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

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Νευτώνιο 6 ιντσών O. S. Marshall, E. H. Redfield, and R. W. Porter, αρχές 20ου αιώνα

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Ο Λεβιάθαν του Parsonstown, William Parsons, 1845

 

Welcome to thy new existence,

Child of Intellect and Might!

Welcome to the wide Dominions,

Lord of Ether and of Light!

 

Thou shalt lead us on in triumphs,

Yet to mortal power unknown;

Realms, which Angels only visit,

Shall yield homage at thy throne.

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Τηλεσκόπιο κήπου

Από την έκθεση της Stellafane

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Διοπτρικό, Andrew Ross & Co, Alexander Davidson, 1890

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

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Πλανητικό Σύστημα, William Darton & Son, 1830-1836

Λιθογραφία

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Κάστρο και πανσέληνος, Χρήστος Κωτσιόπουλος, 2010

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The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878

 

I would not always reason. The straight path

Wearies us with its never-varying lines,

And we grow melancholy. I would make

Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit

Patiently by the way-side, while I traced

The mazes of the pleasant wilderness

Around me. She should be my counsellor,

But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs

Impulses from a deeper source than hers,

And there are motions, in the mind of man,

That she must look upon with awe. I bow

Reverently to her dictates, but not less

Hold to the fair illusions of old time--

Illusions that shed brightness over life,

And glory over nature. Look, even now,

Where two bright planets in the twilight meet,

Upon the saffron heaven,--the imperial star

Of Jove, and she that from her radiant urn

Pours forth the light of love. Let me believe,

Awhile, that they are met for ends of good,

Amid the evening glory, to confer

Of men and their affairs, and to shed down

Kind influence. Lo! their orbs burn more bright,

And shake out softer fires! The great earth feels

The gladness and the quiet of the time.

Meekly the mighty river, that infolds

This mighty city, smooths his front, and far

Glitters and burns even to the rocky base

Of the dark heights that bound him to the west;

And a deep murmur, from the many streets,

Rises like a thanksgiving. Put we hence

Dark and sad thoughts awhile--there's time for them

Hereafter--on the morrow we will meet,

With melancholy looks, to tell our griefs,

And make each other wretched; this calm hour,

This balmy, blessed evening, we will give

To cheerful hopes and dreams of happy days,

Born of the meeting of those glorious stars.

 

Enough of drought has parched the year, and scared

The land with dread of famine. Autumn, yet,

Shall make men glad with unexpected fruits.

The dog-star shall shine harmless; genial days

Shall softly glide away into the keen

And wholesome cold of winter; he that fears

The pestilence, shall gaze on those pure beams,

And breathe, with confidence, the quiet air.

 

Emblems of power and beauty! well may they

Shine brightest on our borders, and withdraw

Towards the great Pacific, marking out

The path of empire. Thus, in our own land,

Ere long, the better Genius of our race,

Having encompassed earth, and tamed its tribes,

Shall sit him down beneath the farthest west,

By the shore of that calm ocean, and look back

On realms made happy.

 

Light the nuptial torch,

And say the glad, yet solemn rite, that knits

The youth and maiden. Happy days to them

That wed this evening!--a long life of love,

And blooming sons and daughters! Happy they

Born at this hour,--for they shall see an age

Whiter and holier than the past, and go

Late to their graves. Men shall wear softer hearts,

And shudder at the butcheries of war,

As now at other murders.

 

Hapless Greece!

Enough of blood has wet thy rocks, and stained

Thy rivers; deep enough thy chains have worn

Their links into thy flesh; the sacrifice

Of thy pure maidens, and thy innocent babes,

And reverend priests, has expiated all

Thy crimes of old. In yonder mingling lights

There is an omen of good days for thee.

Thou shalt arise from 'midst the dust and sit

Again among the nations. Thine own arm

Shall yet redeem thee. Not in wars like thine

The world takes part. Be it a strife of kings,--

Despot with despot battling for a throne,--

And Europe shall be stirred throughout her realms,

Nations shall put on harness, and shall fall

Upon each other, and in all their bounds

The wailing of the childless shall not cease,

Thine is a war for liberty, and thou

Must fight it single-handed. The old world

Looks coldly on the murderers of thy race,

And leaves thee to the struggle; and the new,--

I fear me thou couldst tell a shameful tale

Of fraud and lust of gain;--thy treasury drained,

And Missolonghi fallen. Yet thy wrongs

Shall put new strength into thy heart and hand,

And God and thy good sword shall yet work out,

For thee, a terrible deliverance.

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Blue Moon Eclipse, Jean Paul Roux, 2009

APOD 2-1-10

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Γρηγοριανό Κατοπτρικό, Domenico Selva, 1710

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

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Ουράνια σφαίρα, Newton & Son, 1860

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Λονδίνο

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Map of the heavens and the earth, Lea, Philip Lea, 1699

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Moon and Stars, Lucy Arvin, 2008

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Παρθένος, Πλατεία Δημοτικού Θεάτρου Πειραιά

 

Η σειρά χαρακτικών με θέμα τον Ζωδιακό Κύκλο περιζώνει το τμήμα της πλατείας ανάμεσα στο Δημοτικό Θέατρο και τον ναό Αγίου Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης.

Ασχέτως της καλλιτεχνικής αξίας και των αναφορών σε αστρολογία ή αστρονομία, έχει χαραχτεί ανεξίτηλα στην μνήμη μου, καθώς, μετά από ομηρικούς ποδοσφαιρικούς αγώνες με νεράντζια ή μικρές πλαστικές μπάλες από παρακείμενο ζαχαροπλαστείο όταν περίσσευε ένα τάλαρο, η θέαση τους μου προσέφερε εικονικούς συντρόφους στην στράτα για το σπίτι.

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Αναλημματικό ρολόι, Thomas Tuttell, 1697

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Σπουδή της Αστρονομίας, 1864

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Αtlas celeste de Flamsteed, 1776