The Mädler Delusion — Victorian Dreams of a Cosmic Heart old new york map all set against the Wasatch

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

bracketing a life between two dates that the country was still learning how to mourn

exactly who salutes whom

maritime offices

1847 — an 1847 commemorative engraving that fixes the printer-statesman between his two cities

The Mädler Delusion — Victorian Dreams of a Cosmic Heart old new york map all set against the WasatchThe Mdler Delusion Victorian Dreams of a Cosmic Heart charts Johann Mdler's lovely heresy the conviction that the Pleiades, with Alcyone at their center, formed the beating heart around which all the stars of the Milky Way revolved. A selenographer who had mapped the moon crater by crater turned his gaze outward and gave the firmament a pulse. About the Source Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th century astronomical atlases and selenographic