PINGERE

Rainbows, a Physical Explanation

pingere — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:10:04 +0000

Drawing by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer from his Physica Sacra (ca. 1720). (Source)

Tamandua Standing on Hind Legs

pingere — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:02:55 +0000

Photograph from the Crane Pacific Expedition, 1928 (Participants: Sidney Nichols Shurcliff, Karl P. Schmidt, Cornelius Crane, William L. Moss, Albert W. Herre) (Source)

To Show How Eclipses Take Place

pingere — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:00:55 +0000

Illustration on page 3 of Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894) by Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932), Wellesley College Library, Boston. (Source)

Man with Big Cat

pingere — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:17:09 +0000

Photographer unknown. (Source)

God Fishing Leviathan, Using Jesus Christ’s Human Nature As Bait

pingere — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:08:17 +0000

Drawing in the Hortus Deliciarum (compiled by Herrad of Landsberg), 1167-1185, (Source)

Eggs of Hummingbird, Hen and Ostrich

pingere — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:37:53 +0000

Drawing by Chandler B. Beach, 1904, The New Student’s Reference Work. (Source)

Venus with the Organ Grinder

pingere — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:23:07 +0000

Painting by Titian, 1550-2, Gemaldegallerie, Berlin. (Source)

“The small dog in Venus and the Organ Grinder looks with eyes directly at the spectator, the only ones in the painting which establish a sort of secret contact with the viewer.”

Saharet

pingere — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:47:26 +0000

Photograph from Bain News Service, 1910, George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). (Source)

St. Eligius in his Goldsmith Workshop

pingere — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:04:26 +0000

Painting by Petrus Christus, 1449, Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Source)

Mind and Consciousness of Man

pingere — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:17:32 +0000

Drawing by Robert Fludd, from Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris […] historia, tomus II (1619), tractatus I, sectio I, liber X, De triplici animae in corpore visione. Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, 1.B.3237-2, Abbildung S. 217 (Source)