Neutral Geometry

Increasing Geminid meteor shower activity

“…The situation turned out to be unpromising for both times. There are descriptions of single observations in 1933 and 1934 which do not allow us to derive an activity level (Millman 1934(Millman , 1935. This also holds for reports of some 1974 Geminid visual observations compiled in the magazine Sky & Telescope (anon.…”

Where Had All the Flowers Gone? The Missing Space of Female Sonneteers in Seventeenth-Century England

“…Those that the hidden Chimick Art profess And vizet Nature in her Morning dress To Mercurie and sulpher filterys give That they consum' d with Love may live In their Posterytie and in them shine Though they their being unto them resign Glorying to shine in Silver and Gold Which Fretting vermill poison doth infold Forgetting quite that they were once refin' d By time and Fate to dust are all Calcind Lying obliviated in their Urn Till they to their great Ancesters return Soe Man the Universe's chiefest Glory His primitive's Dust (Alas) doth end his story. 36 Pulter's intellectual "refinement" and godliness may first recall Donne, although her biography connects her with that other giant of sonnets and theology, John Milton: his Sonnet X, "To the Lady Margaret Ley, " is addressed to Hester's sister. But we are now far from the Jacobean courtly networks in which Donne honoured Lucy, Countess of Bedford and Ben Jonson saluted Mary Wroth (using her sonnet form as a component gesture of his praise); personal networks during the civil war years are notoriously difficult to decipher.…”