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Given how introspective the “One Is The Loneliest Number” lyrics are and how generally downbeat the song is, one might suspect that it was inspired by a relationship break up or some other sad situation. In reality, however, Harry Nilsson was compelled to pen "One Is The Loneliest Number" after he made a phone call but got a busy signal. The “beep, beep, beep,” of the engaged telephone line caught his attention and the singer-songwriter incorporated a similar sound into the opening piano chords of his song.
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Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. The sun is composed of plasma, a gas in which the negative electrons move freely around the positive ions, forming a powerful mix of charged particles. Each burst of plasma licks out from the surface only to withdraw back into the active region – a dance commanded by complex magnetic forces above the sun. SDO captured this video in wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, which are typically invisible to our eyes. The imagery is colorized here in red for easy viewing.
Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng
The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward what's called solar minimum when there are few to no solar eruptions – so these flares were the first large ones observed since April. They are categorized as mid-strength flares, substantially less intense than the most powerful solar flares.
These flares were classified as M-level flares. M-class flares are the category just below the most intense flares, X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc.
Of these three flares: The first was an M5.0, which peaked at 10:11 pm EDT on July 22, 2016. The second -- the strongest -- was an M7.6, which peaked at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The final was an M5.5, which peaked 15 minutes later at 1:31 am EDT.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
An instrument on our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured its 100 millionth image of the sun. The instrument is the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, or AIA, which uses four telescopes working parallel to gather eight images of the sun – cycling through 10 different wavelengths -- every 12 seconds.
This is a processed image of SDO multiwavelength blend from Jan. 19, 2015, the date of the spacecraft's 100th millionth image release.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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An active region that was rotating out of view off the sun's western limb, displayed a dazzling variety of dozens of spurts and eruptions in about 2.5 days (Apr. 19-21, 2014). The frames, taken in extreme ultraviolet light, show ionized Helium not far above the Sun's surface. All of the activity near this region was caused by intense magnetic forces in a powerful struggling with each other.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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A twisted blob of solar material – a hot, charged gas called plasma – can be seen erupting off the side of the sun on Sept. 26, 2014. The image is from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, focusing in on ionized Helium at 60,000 degrees C.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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On May 9, 2016, Mercury passed directly between the sun and Earth. This event – which happens about 13 times each century – is called a transit. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, studies the sun 24/7 and captured the entire seven-and-a-half-hour event. This composite image of Mercury’s journey across the sun was created with visible-light images from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on SDO.
Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Genna Duberstein
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This is a previously-published image that has been updated with improved colour definition. Love it or hate it, the Alexander W-Type was one of the most distinctive single-deckers of its era, especially in panoramic-windowed form. Many operators opted for the fussier, short window design - more likely because of their conservation views on vehicle design, rather than particular foresight of the structural problems than the combination of a heavy rear-engine, centre door and large windows would bring. Whatever the reason, the canny folk at Northern General wisely specified the non-panoramic version as depicted here by LUP 379J (updated 26-Jan-19).
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured this solar image on March 16, 2015, which clearly shows two dark patches, known as coronal holes. The larger coronal hole of the two, near the southern pole, covers an estimated 6- to 8-percent of the total solar surface. While that may not sound significant, it is one of the largest polar holes scientists have observed in decades. The smaller coronal hole, towards the opposite pole, is long and narrow. It covers about 3.8 billion square miles on the sun - only about 0.16-percent of the solar surface.
Coronal holes are lower density and temperature regions of the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona. Coronal holes can be a source of fast solar wind of solar particles that envelop the Earth.
The magnetic field in these regions extends far out into space rather than quickly looping back into the sun’s surface. Magnetic fields that loop up and back down to the surface can be seen as arcs in non-coronal hole regions of the image, including over the lower right horizon.
The bright active region on the lower right quadrant is the same region that produced solar flares last week.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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This image, is a composite of 23 separate images spanning the period of January 11, 2015 to January 21, 2016. It uses the SDO AIA wavelength of 171 angstroms and reveals the zones on the sun where active regions are most common during this part of the solar cycle.
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/S. Wiessinger
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I hadn't intended to produce a second example of Sunderland District's HUP-C Leyland Leopards, but a simple swap of front panels enabled Northern's CCD 714D to be presented as HUP 947C. This is how it appears (without the lower grille originaly fitted) on page 45 of 'Northern General and its Subsidiaries - From No Place to Success' (Autobus Review Publications). To quote from the caption to that image:
"New to Sunderland District in 1965 and fitted with BET-style dual-purpose bodywork, Leyland Leopard 347 (347 HUPC) is seen here wearing its original light blue and cream, livery. Transferred to Northern upon its absorption of Sunderland District on 1 January 1975, it was repainted into NBC poppy red and renumbered 4304. It was withdrawn in 1978." (08-Feb-10)
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On Nov. 22, 2014 from 5:29 to 6:04 p.m. EST., the moon partially obscured the view of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This phenomenon, which is called a lunar transit, could only be seen from SDO's point of view.
In 2014, SDO captured four such transits -- including its longest ever recorded, which occurred on Jan. 30, and lasted two and a half hours.
SDO imagery during a lunar transit always shows a crisp horizon on the moon -- a reflection of the fact that the moon has no atmosphere around it to distort the light from the sun. The horizon is so clear in these images that mountains and valleys in the terrain can be seen.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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Magnetic arcs of solar material spewing from our favorite sphere of hot plasma, the sun.
Magnetic arcs of solar material held their shapes fairly well as they spiraled above two solar active regions over 18 hours on Jan. 11-12, 2017. The charged solar material, called plasma, traces out the magnetic field lines above the active regions when viewed in wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Extreme ultraviolet light is typically invisible to our eyes, but is colorized here in gold for easy viewing.
Credit: NASA/SDO
A pair of giant filaments on the face of the sun have formed what appears to be an enormous arrow. If straightened out, each filament would be about as long as the sun’s diameter, 1 million miles long.
Filaments are cooler clouds of solar material suspended above the sun's surface by powerful magnetic forces. Filaments can float for days without much change, though they can also erupt, releasing solar material in a shower that either rains back down or escapes out into space, becoming a moving cloud known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME.
This image was captured on May 28, 2015, in combined wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observes the sun 24 hours a day.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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A dark line snaked across the lower half of the sun on Feb.10, 2015, as seen in this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. SDO shows colder material as dark and hotter material as light, so the line is, in fact, an enormous swatch of colder material hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. Stretched out, that line – or solar filament as scientists call it – would be more than 533,000 miles long. That is longer than 67 Earths lined up in a row.
Filaments can float sedately for days before disappearing. Sometimes they also erupt out into space, releasing solar material in a shower that either rains back down or escapes out into space, becoming a moving cloud known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME.
SDO captured images of the filament in numerous wavelengths, each of which helps highlight material of different temperatures on the sun. By looking at such features in different wavelengths and temperatures, scientists learn more about what causes these structures, as well as what catalyzes their occasional eruptions.
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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SDO View of M7.3 Class Solar Flare on Oct. 2, 2014
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M7.3 class solar flare on Oct. 2, 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it.
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A substantial coronal mass ejection, or CME, blew out from side of the Sun, giving us a great view of the event in profile (June 17-18, 2015). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. The video clip covers about four hours of the event. While some of the plasma falls back into the Sun, a look at the coronagraph on SOHO shows a large cloud of particles heading into space.
Credit: NASA/Goddard//SDO
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Photo of Sun courtesy of the NASA SDO satellite.
I added the coronagraph rings and the "Earth to scale".
On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 89 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the sun’s face. The moon’s crisp horizon can be seen from this view because the moon has no atmosphere to distort the sunlight.
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk. NASA created this website to provide a guide to this amazing event. Here you will find activities, events, broadcasts, and resources from NASA and our partners across the nation.
Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng, producer
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 11:24 p.m. EST on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
This flare is classified as an M5.6-class flare. M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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On Oct. 19, 2017, the Moon photobombed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, when it crossed the spacecraft’s view of the Sun, treating us to these shadowy images. The lunar transit lasted about 45 minutes, between 3:41 and 4:25 p.m. EDT, with the Moon covering about 26 percent of the Sun at the peak of its journey. The Moon’s shadow obstructs SDO’s otherwise constant view of the Sun, and the shadow’s edge is sharp and distinct, since the Moon has no atmosphere which would distort sunlight.
SDO captured these images in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light that shows solar material heated to more than 10 million degrees Fahrenheit. This kind of light is invisible to human eyes, but colorized here in green.
Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng
On Oct. 30, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted one hour, between 3:56 p.m. and 4:56 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 59 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the face of the sun.
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk. NASA created this website to provide a guide to this amazing event. Here you will find activities, events, broadcasts, and resources from NASA and our partners across the nation.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/Joy Ng
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a mid-level solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the middle –on Dec. 16, 2014 shortly before midnight EST.
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From long, tapered jets to massive explosions of solar material and energy, eruptions on the sun come in many shapes and sizes. Since they erupt at such vastly different scales, jets and the massive clouds — called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs — were previously thought to be driven by different processes.
Scientists from Durham University in the United Kingdom and NASA now propose that a universal mechanism can explain the whole spectrum of solar eruptions. They used 3-D computer simulations to demonstrate that a variety of eruptions can theoretically be thought of as the same kind of event, only in different sizes and manifested in different ways. Their work is summarized in a paper published in Nature on April 26, 2017.
The study was motivated by high-resolution observations of filaments from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, and the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/NASA Hinode satellite. Filaments are dark, serpentine structures that are suspended above the sun’s surface and consist of dense, cold solar material. The onset of CME eruptions had long been known to be associated with filaments, but improved observations have recently shown that jets have similar filament-like structures before eruption too. So the scientists set out to see if they could get their computer simulations to link filaments to jet eruptions as well.
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Observers outside this path will still see a partial solar eclipse where the moon covers part of the sun's disk. NASA created this website to provide a guide to this amazing event. Here you will find activities, events, broadcasts, and resources from NASA and our partners across the nation.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO
Caption: A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M-class solar flare from the same region was subsiding. The images include light from the 131, 171 and 304 Angstrom wavelengths.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 1:32 pm EDT on May 3, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, and the radio blackout for this flare has already subsided.
This flare is classified as an M5.7 class flare. M-class flares are the weakest flares that can still cause some space weather effects near Earth. Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, since the sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum, which is expected in late 2013.
Updates will be provided as they are available on the flare and whether there was an associated coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth.
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A second X-class flare of June 10, 2014, appears as a bright flash on the left side of this image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. This image shows light in the 193-angstrom wavelength, which is typically colorized in yellow. It was captured at 8:55 a.m EDT, just after the flare peaked.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 2:23 EDT on June 22, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
To see how this event may affect Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center at spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.
This flare is classified as a M6.6 flare. M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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NASA image captured June 5, 2012.
On June 5-6 2012, SDO is collecting images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
Credit: NASA/SDO, AIA
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught this dramatic image of sunspot 1302 on September 28, 2011 with the Advanced Imaging Assembly (AIA). This sunspot has produced an x-class flare, two m-class flares and several CMEs since September 24. AIA takes images in 10 different light wavelengths. This one is shown in 171 Angstroms, typically colorized in yellow on SDO images. The thin, whispy lines are called coronal loops and they are made of hot solar material – charged particles called plasma – that collect around invisible magnetic fields looping up from the sun. The 171Angstrom wavelength is one of the best for looking at these coronal loops.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun’s surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun’s magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth.
On Oct. 24, 2014, NASA’s SDO observed an X-class solar flare erupt from a Jupiter-sized sunspot group, shown here in this video.
Image Credit: Tahar Amari et al./Center for Theoretical Physics/École Polytechnique/NASA Goddard/Joy Ng
I was watching some videos from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory the other day and I decided to do a time stack to see what it looked like. This is all of September and 8 days from October. (I would have stacked more, but the camera does a spin sometimes for calibration or something like that)
I found it interesting that most of the activity happens on either side of the equator and not right on the equator or even the poles.
Here's the website if you want to have a look for yourself. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Photos courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
Arches of magnetic field lines towered over the sun’s edge as a pair of active regions began to rotate into view in this video captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on April 5-6, 2016. Active regions are areas of very concentrated magnetic field. Charged particles spiraling along these magnetic fields emit extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically not visible to our eyes, but colorized here in gold. The light given off from the particles helps trace out the magnetic field lines, which are otherwise invisible.
Scientists use images such as this to observe how magnetic fields move around the sun and learn more about what causes active regions.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
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Magnetic Dance: Solar material traces out giant magnetic fields soaring through the sun to create what's called coronal loops. Here they can be seen as white lines in a sharpened AIA image from Oct. 24, 2014, laid over data from SDO's Helioseismic Magnetic Imager, which shows magnetic fields on the sun's surface in false color.
Credit: NASA/SDO/HMI/AIA/LMSAL
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A single plume of plasma, many times taller than the diameter of Earth, rose up from the Sun, twisted and spun around, all the while spewing streams of particles for over two days (Aug. 17-19, 2015) before breaking apart. At times, its shape resembled the Eiffel Tower. Other lesser plumes and streams of particles can be seen dancing above the solar surface as well. The action was observed in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light.
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Mercury Transit in November 2019 Captured from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [SDO]
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Each and every day NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes our Sun and relays observational data to scientists on Earth in an effort to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is helping researchers understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
SDO's goal is to understand, driving towards a predictive capability, the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity's technological systems by determining how the Sun's magnetic field is generated and structured, and also how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance.
This image of the Sun was taken on May 15, 2018, by SDO.
Image Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period (Feb. 24, 2015). While some of the strands fell back into the Sun, a substantial part raced into space in a bright cloud of particles (as observed by the SOHO spacecraft). The activity was captured in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. Because this occurred way over near the edge of the Sun, it was unlikely to have any effect on Earth.
Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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From NASA SDO: "The Earth Eclipses the Sun - Sonnenfinsternis nicht durch den Mond sondern die Erde - gesehen aus dem Weltall" (youtube)
Part of: "Paper from the abandoned cement plant - The invention of drawing" auf dem Fensterbrett "Scaffold Masking Shroud Gerüst Maskierung Schleier" Blick durchs Fenster auf das Gerüst, Sommer 2013 // Perspektivwechsel // "Memento - zeitweilige Entnichtung" paper from the abandoned cement plant
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APES WITH AN OUVRE
First there was the ancient Roman myth of Dibutade, who did the next best thing to taking a Polaroid: before her lover left on a long journey, she recorded his face by tracing his profile on the wall. But in 1942, in a letter to "Nature", Julian Huxley gave us the contemporary origins-of-art story. He had observed a gorilla at the London zoo carefully track the outline of his own shadow on the wall. The gorilla did so thrice, and Huxley recognized a relationship to the possible origins of human graphic art.
(Frans de Waal "The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist" p.165)
AFFEN MIT EINEM OEUVRE
"Am Anfang gab es den Mythos der Tochter des griechischen Ziegelbrenners Dibutades, die noch keine Polaroidkamera zur Hand hatte und sich deshalb anders behelfen mußte: Bevor sich ihr Geliebter auf eine lange Reise begab, hielt sie das Bild senes Kopfes fest, indem sie das Profil auf einer Wand nachzeichnete. Dibutades modellierte den Kopf anhand der Silhouette in Ton und brannte ihn mit seinen Ziegeln im Ofen. Doch mehr als 2000 Jahre später, im Jahre 1942, formulierte Julian Huxley in einem Brief an die Zeitschrift Nature eine zeitgenössische Entstehungsgeschichte der Kunst. Er hatte beobachtet, wie ein Gorilla im Londoner Zoo sorgfältig den Umriß seines Schattens auf einer Wand nachzeichnete. Nachdem der Gorilla dies dreimal wiederholt hatte, erkannte Huxley darin eine Beziehung zu den möglichen Ursprüngen der menschlichen graphischen Kunst" (Frans de Waal "Der Affe und der Sushimeister. Das kulturelle Leben der Tiere. dtv. S. 158/159)
More about the myth of the invention of drawing and of modeling in clay: The origin of painting (from projection system / wordpress.com)
Gaius Plinius Secundus NATURALIS HISTORIA 35 XII
De pictura satis superque; contexuisse his et plasticen conveniat. Eiusdem opere terrae fingere ex argilla similitudines Butades Sicyonius figulus primus invenit Corinthi filiae opera, quae capta amore iuvenis, abeune illo peregre, umbram ex facie eius ad lucernam in pariete liniis circumscripsit, quibus pater eius inpressa argilla typum fecit et cum ceteris fictilibus induratum igni proposuit; eumque servatum in Nymphaeo, donec Mummius Corinthum everterit, tradunt."
Deutsche Übersetzung Johann Daniel Denso
"Das ist genug, und übrig genug von Malerei. Hier wird es sich nun fügen, die Abbildungskunst damit zu verbinden. Vermöge dieser von Erde mit Thone die Gleichheit der Dinge vorzubilden, hat zuerst der Töpfer Dibutades von Sicyon, durch Hülfe seiner Tochter, erfunden. Diese war in einen Jüngling verliebt, und da derselbe in die Fremde reisete, hat sie den Schattenriß seines Gesichtes bei Lichte an der Wand mit Linien umzogen. Hierauf drückte der Vater Thon, machte davon einen Abdruck, brannte denselben mit seinem übrigen Töpfergeschirre und stellete ihn auf. Man schreibt, er soll auch in dem Nympheum so lange aufbewahret sein, bis Mummius Corinth zerstörete."
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