Evening star

2020 ◽  
Vol N° 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
Nicolas Acelin
Keyword(s):  
Evening Star

L'ouragan de la Caroline du Sud

1894 ◽  
Vol 25 (97) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Keyword(s):  
Sea Islands ◽  
Evening Star

L'Evening Star, de Washington, du 14 décembre, a publié un article sur l'œuvre accomplie par la Croix-Rouge américaine en faveur des victimes de l'ouragan qui, le 27 août dernier, a ravagé les îles situées le long de la côte de la Caroline du Sud. Cetarchipel des « Iles de la mer » (Sea Islands) compte une centaine d'îles, s'étendant sur une longueur de 250 kilomètres, presque toutes couvertes de forêts de pins, de chênes, de magnolias et de gommiers.

Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman

2019 ◽  
pp. 277-300
Author(s):  
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Victorian Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Illustrated Press ◽  
Evening Star

In this essay, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra explores the career of an important yet neglected artist whose work in the illustrated press deserves more concentrated attention. From 1885 to 1895, Clemence Housman (1861–1955) worked as an engraver for the Graphic (1869–1932), but by the mid-1890s there was little work in the trade since most papers were converting to systems of photomechanical reproduction. She then transitioned to fine-art wood engraving in the book trade, producing several exquisite titles in collaboration with her brother Laurence Housman, including The Were-Wolf (1896). She continued working the field until the 1920s, eventually producing her masterpiece, an engraving of James Guthrie’s ‘Evening Star.’ The trajectory of her career not only demonstrates how new reproductive technologies altered women’s work in the periodical press over the course of the nineteenth century but also reminds us of the thousands of other women who contributed to this industry but have been largely overlooked in press history. Indeed, as Janzen Kooistra’s essay makes clear, women were not just the subject matter or intended audience for periodical advertisements and illustrations; they were actively engaged in the production of the images that proliferated throughout the Victorian illustrated press.

Break of Day and The Evening Star

Colette ◽  
1991 ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Diana Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Evening Star

The Evening Star: Adonais

Shelley ◽  
1968 ◽  
pp. 213-227
Author(s):  
Carlos Baker
Keyword(s):  
Evening Star

The Planets in Aboriginal Australia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duane W. Hamacher ◽  
Kirsten Banks
Keyword(s):  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Zodiacal Light ◽  
Retrograde Motion ◽  
Synodic Period ◽  
Relative Brightness ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Evening Star

Studies in Australian Indigenous astronomical knowledge reveal few accounts of the visible planets in the sky. However, what information we do have tells us that Aboriginal people are close observers of planets and their motions and properties. Indigenous Australians discerned between planets and stars by their placement in the sky and their general lack of scintillation. Traditions generally describe the ecliptic and zodiac as a pathway of sky ancestors represented by the sun, moon, and planets. This included observing the occasional backwards motion of sky ancestors as they communicate with each other during their journey across the sky, representing an explanation of retrograde motion. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people note the relative brightness of the planets over time and information about the roles they play in their traditions around Australia. Knowledge systems outline the importance placed on Venus as the morning and evening star, making connections to the object as it transitions form one to the other through observations and calculation of the planet’s synodic period. Traditions note the relative positions of the planets to the moon, sun, and background stars, as well as inter planetary dust through zodiacal light, which is perceived as a celestial rope connecting Venus to the sun. The relative dearth of descriptions of planets in Aboriginal traditions may be due to the gross incompleteness of recorded astronomical traditions and of ethnographic bias and misidentification in the anthropological record. Ethnographic fieldwork with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is revealing new, previously unrecorded knowledge about the planets and their related phenomena.

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