A charcoal drawing by Władysław T. Benda, depicting the earth with Milky Way and moon, watched by a veiled and robed figure, ca. 1918. Benda produced this image to accompany Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Future of Earth”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
Can a person’s experiences on earth alter how they perceive the stars? Lauren Collee peers through the telescope of Anton Pannekoek, the Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos.
Also appearing in the essay…
[The Earth With the Milky Way and Moon]
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ca. 1918
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The Future of Earth
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