Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Alice's Celestial Globe



The Bainbridge Island library has a copy of Alice's Celestial Globe made by Greaves and Thomas. John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Thought the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are matched with many of the known constellations. The link has photos that are much better than the ones I took last Friday plus explanations of the constellations.



The Orrery Cafe in the Isle of Wight is a planetarium that depicts Alice's celestial globe. When the House of Glee finally visits England, we must also visit the Isle of Wight for the Orrery Cafe alone.

3 comments:

tanita✿davis said...

Oh. Wow.

Lone Star Ma said...

Too entirely groovy.

Jules at 7-Imp said...

Oh I just love seeing this again. Beautiful.