Fanart: Nova Stella for paroxym
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small_giftsTitle: Nova Stella
Artist:magnetic_pole
Recipient:paroxysm
Rating:G/work-safe
Summary: Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light / I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. The two final lines to the 1868 poem The Old Astronomer to His Pupil by Sarah Williams.
Notes: A gift forparoxysm. Thank you for joining us again at small gifts, for pinching hitting, and for creating a moving, memorable story about Remus’s discovery of an ancient book of magic, The First Astronomer’s Last Book for elle_ja_belle. P, I was inspired by your descriptions of the book and tried to suggest what it might have looked like here (see below for images, sources, and explanations). I hope you enjoy exploring the images and links as much as I did!
Gentle as a lover, he eased open the pages. He almost could not believe his eyes. The text was in Latin, which thankfully Remus could read:
To my successor-- my time is not ready for these works. Possibly, humanity will never be ready, but I cannot let such knowledge pass on to death. I have enchanted this book as well, as I know how to entice those of a curious mind and to stay hale and whole until such a time as the knowledge passes on. Keep working, keep learning. Death is not the last enemy, but the first. - Tychonis Brahe
Remus felt his hands tremble. He understood now that he was holding a lost text by Tycho Brahe, father of observational astronomy. He forgot the rest of the Black treasure, tucked the book inside his coat with the same tenderness he had once shown his newborn son, and ran home. (from The First Astronomer's Last Book)
Credits (clockwise from top right): A. an example of decorative bookbinding with gold tooling from the 16th century, the Psalmista Monasticum, Venice, 1573, http://www.cyclopaedia.org/16c/16cbindings.html; B. Diffidentia sola tenere potes, nulla dubitation est (You cannot hold a single misgiving, a single doubt), a line fromparoxym’s fic rendered in Pia Frauss’ font Tycho’s Elegy, developed from an autograph version of Tycho’s poem Ad Daniam Elegia, http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/te.htm; C. Tycho Brahe’s signature, http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=tycho-brahe; D. the title page of the first volume of a projected work on recent astronomical phenomena, including mention of the "wonderful new star of 1572," prepared for posthumous publication by Johannes Kepler, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2013gen94777/?sp=7; E. Resurrecturos Quam Amans - et morte moriatur (How to Resurrect a Loved one-- death is dead), another line from paroxym's fic rendered in Pia Frauss’ font Tycho’s Elegy; F. an example of gauffered edges on a sixteenth century book, in which gilded edges are decorated by impressing small repeating patterns with heated tools, http://www.cyclopaedia.org/16c/16cbindings.html.
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paroxysmRating:G/work-safe
Summary: Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light / I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. The two final lines to the 1868 poem The Old Astronomer to His Pupil by Sarah Williams.
Notes: A gift for
paroxysm. Thank you for joining us again at small gifts, for pinching hitting, and for creating a moving, memorable story about Remus’s discovery of an ancient book of magic, The First Astronomer’s Last Book for elle_ja_belle. P, I was inspired by your descriptions of the book and tried to suggest what it might have looked like here (see below for images, sources, and explanations). I hope you enjoy exploring the images and links as much as I did!Gentle as a lover, he eased open the pages. He almost could not believe his eyes. The text was in Latin, which thankfully Remus could read:
To my successor-- my time is not ready for these works. Possibly, humanity will never be ready, but I cannot let such knowledge pass on to death. I have enchanted this book as well, as I know how to entice those of a curious mind and to stay hale and whole until such a time as the knowledge passes on. Keep working, keep learning. Death is not the last enemy, but the first. - Tychonis Brahe
Remus felt his hands tremble. He understood now that he was holding a lost text by Tycho Brahe, father of observational astronomy. He forgot the rest of the Black treasure, tucked the book inside his coat with the same tenderness he had once shown his newborn son, and ran home. (from The First Astronomer's Last Book)
Credits (clockwise from top right): A. an example of decorative bookbinding with gold tooling from the 16th century, the Psalmista Monasticum, Venice, 1573, http://www.cyclopaedia.org/16c/16cbindings.html; B. Diffidentia sola tenere potes, nulla dubitation est (You cannot hold a single misgiving, a single doubt), a line from
paroxym’s fic rendered in Pia Frauss’ font Tycho’s Elegy, developed from an autograph version of Tycho’s poem Ad Daniam Elegia, http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/te.htm; C. Tycho Brahe’s signature, http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=tycho-brahe; D. the title page of the first volume of a projected work on recent astronomical phenomena, including mention of the "wonderful new star of 1572," prepared for posthumous publication by Johannes Kepler, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2013gen94777/?sp=7; E. Resurrecturos Quam Amans - et morte moriatur (How to Resurrect a Loved one-- death is dead), another line from paroxym's fic rendered in Pia Frauss’ font Tycho’s Elegy; F. an example of gauffered edges on a sixteenth century book, in which gilded edges are decorated by impressing small repeating patterns with heated tools, http://www.cyclopaedia.org/16c/16cbindings.html.
