Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Lumen_Field The Celestial Machinery a Victorian

The Celestial Machinery a Victorian Map of Planetary Wanderings charts the orrery's brass logic against the older terror of vagabond stars — those planētai

Their faces

A documentary engraving of Scott's storming of the castle above Mexico City

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part A — a Victorian astronomical plate where the eclipse becomes geometry and geometry becomes prayer

A Little More Grape Capt Bragg: General Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista

Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Lumen_Field The Celestial Machinery a VictorianDeath of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Henry Clay Jr.'s last moments in the Mexican chaparral, the son of the Great Compromiser felled in a war his father had warned against. Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical