This we highlight the swiftest ship in Nelson's fleet, HMS Pickle, which brought news of the victory to Britain. The has the lieutenant's logbook for Pickle from Dec 1805 to Mar 1807: https://t.co/pDgjMjj0I5

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Presenting a more expansive view of and its relation to the greater region of here in an inset on a 1722(?) French chart of the Strait of Magellan, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by Jean-Frédéric Bernard.

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Ohio, on a from 1840(?), when paddle wheel steamboats plied the mighty Ohio River; drawn by B. Oertly and lithographed and published by Otto Onken.

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508 years ago: the then largest warship in the world, Henry Grace a Dieu or Great Harry, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard. The has a warrant issued by Henry VIII requesting cloth for its consecration in 1514: https://t.co/b2K0dAUnWU

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Making note of the striking morning assemblage this month in the eastern sky of the known to Ptolemy; here on a plate of the comprehensible universe from the 1708 edition by Valk & Schenk of Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660).

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The allure of the North continues, with an 1800 German of the (inset) and an interestingly compact by J.C.M. Reinecke and based upon a French survey map from 1776.

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Looking forward to Strange Futures at on Thurs 21 April - "What if it was you, if you were the last individual of the species, The Endling?"
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And speaking of "Diana's Foresters" who roam under the light of the here one fourth of an 1834 early lithographic print, the first to present the Moon in quadrants, and created by an amateur, Wilhelm Beer, and professional astronomer, Johann Mädler.

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Happy Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Year of the Tiger from all of us at 🐯

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Another plate from the Buache/de L'Isle physical atlas Cartes et Tables de la Géographie Physique ou Naturelle; here, along with a map of the island Fernando de Noronha, is an 18th c. view of the sea floor near the equator between South America and Africa.

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Instead of doing paperwork I dug through books by this artist (耳鳥斎, c1751-1802) in Japan's NDLibrary.

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