JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
- Part of a long series on Blank, Empty, and Missing Things
I found this fantastic photograph of the attendees of the meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at Hamburg, August 1913 in the December issue 1913 issue of Popular Astronomy. This is an august group, and of course they’re not “blank” or “missing”–its just a function of some out-of-context observations on the opaque overlay that serves to identify all of the folks in the massive group photo. (I’ve encountered these numerous times over the years and always have found the Found-Art aspect of them interesting and amusing.) The fact of the matter, though, is that there were some very high-powered people at this meeting. Offhand I identify Mader, Eddington, Abbott, Mueller, Plassman, Struve, Plaskett, Campbell, Repsold(s), Jansen, Schwarzchild, Backlund, Seeliger, and numerous others.
And the full presentation:
