Ancient Sumerian Star Map Reveals Cataclysmic Asteroid Impact
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By Derek Olson
Over 150 years ago, this ancient Sumerian star map was found by Henry Layard in a subterranean library in Nineveh. Ever since its discovery, scholars had been puzzled to learn its meaning, until computer software in 2008 finally allowed for the Cuneiform clay tablet to be translated, which revealed the oldest documented observation of an asteroid impact to…
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▪︎ Planisphere.
Place of origin: Japan
Date: late 17th century
Medium: Bronze
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The Tycho Brahe Planisphere
Illustrated by Andreas Cellarius in 1660
The planisphere of Brahe, or the structure of the universe following the hypothesis of Tycho Brahe drawn in a planar view.
Brahe’s model of the universe used aspects of both the Ptolemy model and the Copernican model of heliocentrism. His model assumed that the Sun orbited the Earth and the other planets orbited the Sun
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Soooo, I have been doing an outfit design as you may have been told. However, guess what?? the pain isn’t done! I still have to finish the weapon. After that, I may do a third revision of the outfit (and astrologian arms). As you see, I have been working to make sure the quality is good, or at least matching ffxiv design quality. I am probably going to redo it again as well. The weapon is meant to go with the outfit.
as a side note, I have found out how to make perfect circles in procreate and that has saved me so much time
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[Planisphère nautique] / Opus Nicolay de Caverio ianuensisCaverio, Nicolaus de (14..-15.. ; cartographe). Cartographe
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Football: Inter unveils away jersey with world design
Football: Inter unveils away jersey with world design
(ANSA) – MILAN, AUGUST 11 – Inter unveils the 2022/23 away shirt, which enhances the international character that has always distinguished the club. On the uniform, white forms the basis of the new design, enriched by a light aqua color print depicting a world map. The emblem is positioned in correspondence of Milan on the map, with white shorts and socks.
The new kit will be inaugurated by the…
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[ Memories ]
„ Ordinary people keep a journal. Sotha Sil decided to store his memories as star-data in an artificial astronomical matrix keyed to his philosophical musings on the structure of the Aurbis. Of course. ”
— Almalexia
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Part 2 of putting FFXIV classes on Izaya alts (1 here)
💀Reaper Hachimenroppi and Astrologian Sakuraya 🔮
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justice kandi!
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help! i can't stop taking screencaps of kit's various ast glams.
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