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Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 19:44:01 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

In honour of his birthday: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler's science fiction story Somnium, or "The Dream". Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen.
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1. My linocut print of Kepler’s Somnium (or Dream) in darkest blue on white with chine collé collaged papers for aliens. It shows the Earth in space viewed from the mountainous moon where a boy and daemon in a cave view the giant serpent like creature (on marbled paper in swirling pink, orange and blue) and three pinecone shaped creatures on pink, peach and turquoise paper.
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