'Ocean Memory' game
163 'Ocean Memory' game - Stars and Constellations
This little picture is enormously popular across social media and internet forums. First of all because it transfers a feeling, a feeling about being young and wondering about the Universe the first time in your life. This is the start of many interesting journeys and besides that, it is also a fine drawing.©: artist unknown
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164 'Ocean Memory' game - 'Amerigo Vespucci finding the Southern Cross'
Plate 19 from Nova Repertae (c.1600), entitled "The Development of the Mariners Astrolabe and the Discovery of America by Amerigo Vespucci".Depiction of Amerigo Vespucci finding the Southern Cross constellation with an "astrolabium". Event described by Vespucci in his Letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (dated 1500) as happening during his 1499 voyage to the Indies. Print includes Vespucci's own allusion to a relevant passage in Dante's Purgatorio (passage). Although this is one of the first recorded references to the use of the mariner's astrolabe in navigation, the artist seems unfamiliar with that instrument, and has Vespucci holding a spherical version instead; there seems to also be a quadrant on the table (also reported used by Vespucci). N.B. - this 1500 letter was not known to exist until discovered by Bandini in 1745! Artist either knew of it already, or may have drawn speculatively from a very brief reference to astrolabe in Vespucci's letter published in 1505 Mundus Novus (passage, although, unlike in the 1500 letter, there is no reference to the Southern Cross nor Dante here). Etching by Jan COLLAERT, based on Stradanus (1591).
©: from Wikipedia: Creative Commons
tags: #Amerigo Vespucci #Southern Cross #Giovanni Stradano #Jan van der Straet #Jan Collaert #Ocean #Memory #Game #
164a 'Ocean Memory' game -'Stargazing'
Astronomer stargazing, from 'Introductorium in Astronomiam', published in Venice 1506©: Creative Commons
tags: #Stargazing #astronomy #Ocean #Memory #Game
ref. # 165 'Ocean Memory' game - "Across the Sea'
'Across the Sea' from an antique american game by Milton Bradley Company 1910Especially charming color lithograph showcasing the countries of Switzerland, Russia, Japan, Holland,Venice, and Egypt. Established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1860, The Milton Bradley Company has become a household name in American games.
©: www.zandkantiques.com
tags: #Across the Sea #Ocean #Memory #Game
166 'Ocean Memory' game - Sperm whale
In the days before photography and mass media, pictures of whales were rare and while based in reality often fanciful. While much more accurate than many early illustrations, there is still a great deal of artistic license or just plain inaccuracy. The shape is good and proportions reasonable (it's too "tall" though), but the lower jaw is too large and the expression is rather anthropomorphic. Strangest of all is how these 4 men have managed to drag a 60+ tonne whale onto an ice floe. Such pictures fed the public perception of whales and whaling. If you want to be particularly critical, you could say that they sanitized the whale fishery and made it seem far more benign and clean than it really was.©: text from: www.coolantarctica.com (there's a nice folksong here as well)
Chromolithograph of a sperm whale from "Johnson's Household Book of Nature: Mammalia", Plate XXIX Cetacea, 1880 by Henry J. Johnson 7" x 9.5"
tags: #sperm whale #Greenland whale fishery #whaling #Ocean #Memory #Game
ref. # 'Ocean Memory' game - Anglerfish / Rape (Spanish for Monkfish) / Lotte / Zeeduivel
Anglerfish derive their name from the fascinating method that they utilize to catch their prey. The first spine of their dorsal fin is located on their head, forming a type of fishing rod with a fleshy lure. ´ It therefore buries itself in the muddy sand... The neighbouring fish, following the instincts of their inquisitive nature, come to examine the curious object and are suddenly snapped up by the wide jaws of their hidden foe´ -as described by Rev. J.G. Wood.©: unknown
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ref. # 167a 'Ocean Memory' game - Anglerfish
There are approximately 210 marine species of anglerfish. In some notable species of deep-sea angler, the much smaller male bites the female and becomes fused to her skin. The bloodstreams of the two fishes become connected; afterwards the male becomes parasitec on the female. Some deep-sea angler species have bioluminiscent lures, which both attract and illuminate prey.©: Ponsonby´s Curious Compendium ´Sea Cr, tures´ D, David Ponsonby & Professor Georges Dussart, IVY Press, ISBN: 978-1-78240-245-9
tags: #anglerfish #Ocean #Memory #Game
ref. # 168 'Ocean Memory' game - 'Boladora'
Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like pectoral fins get them airborne.Flying fish actually glide rather than truly fly. They launch themselves into the air by beating the tail very fast and spreading their pectoral fins to use as wings. There are 52 different species of flying fish which are found in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
©: British Museum
tags: #boladora #flying fish #Ocean #Memory #Game
