After just under a year without new classical content, here are a few new Astronomy Pictures of the Day with classical content:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110117.html - Night and Day above Almost Planet Sounio
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110114.html - Quadrantids over Qumis
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110109.html - The Antikythera Mechanism
-- Robert
After ignoring my blog for a few/many months, I’ve started updating it again.
I’ll continue where I stopped, with an update to Astronomy Picture of the Day with classical content.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100118.html - Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091223.html - December Sunrise, Cape Sounion
I don’t think there’s been anything I’ve missed – but if I have, please let me know!
Astronomy Picture of the Day is one of the most popular astronomical web sites on the 'net. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer
Today's picture is that of the Parthenon, with a dramatic background of the rising Sun.
(picture created and copyrighted by Anthony Ayiomamitis)
I've put together a list of all the Classically themed pictures which I've found. Of course, many more of the pictures have some classical connection because so many of the night sky is named after Greek and Roman gods, heroes and miscellanies...
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090621.html - Sunrise over the Parthenon
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090320.html - Sunset at the Portara
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081221.html - Analemma Over the Porch of Maidens
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081216.html - Orion over Nemrut Dagh
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080718.html - Jupiter over Ephesus
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070420.html - Pantheon Earth and Moon
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061223.html - The Analemma and the Temple of Olympian Zeus
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061205.html - The Antikythera Mechanism
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040621.html - Analemma over Ancient Nemea
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040229.html - Julius Caesar and Leap Days
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030320.html - Sunrise Analemma
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020113.html - Hypatia of Alexandria
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000229.html - Julius Caesar and Leap Days
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960229.html - Julius Caesar and Leap Days
I'll update this list whenever I think a new picture is classically themed. If you know of one I've missed, them please drop me a note.
An exhibition on ancient Greek technology titled "Greece and Technology: a perspective through time" will be soon be hosted at the premises of the "Teloglion Foundation of Art" in Thessaloniki, organized by the University of Thessaloniki (Faculty of Sciences).
The exhibition will open on November 12 and will run through January 11, 2009. The purpose of the exhibition is to highlight the recent scientific findings which show that ancient Greeks were technologically more advanced that it was previously thought.
Within the framework of the exhibition a series of lectures has been announced to take place within 2008.
Among the lectures delivered, one will focus on the famous Antikythera Mechanism , a device which could predict eclipses decades in advance and was also used to record the four-yearly cycle of the original Olympic Games.
Visit the co-organizing bodies: Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum (in Greek)
and the Society for Ancient Greek Technology Studies; Ancient Greece OnLine
-- Robert
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