Ah, behold the galaxy-sized coffee table book of yawn-inducing ancient space doodles ☄️📚! Marvel at humanity's thousand-year obsession with drawing slightly different circles and calling them "celestial wonders." 🤪✨ Because who doesn't want a history lesson on how people once thought the sky was falling? 🙄🌌
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky/ #galaxyart #ancientdoodles #celestialwonders #spacehistory #humorinscience #cosmiccuriosities #HackerNews #ngated
Flowers of the Sky

Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.

The Public Domain Review
🧙‍♂️🔮 "Great news! #Cambridge folks found some ancient doodles of #Merlin used as book stuffing. 🤯 After three years and a #wizardry of tech, they’ve digitized these scribbles because apparently that's the future. 📚✨"
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge #ancientdoodles #digitization #HackerNews #ngated
Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at Cambridge University Library.

University of Cambridge