Ballonghuset i Virgohamna Andrées balloonstation, 1897 Estação construída para albergar o balão dos exploradores suecos Salomon A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg e Knut Frænkel, que tinha como objectivo sobrevoar…
Jogo sueco (1896) inspirado no plano aventuroso, que se viria a revelar trágico, dos exploradores Salomon A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg e Knut Frænkel, que tinham como objectivo atravessar…
James Nasmyth, Copernicus’ crater study model in plaster, 1870’s One of 15 assorted photographs of Nasmyth’s crater models illuminated at a low angle illustrating unknown lunar craters and…
James Nasmyth, 1851. Copernicus’ crater, chalk, pastel and crayon, painting of part of the surface of the Moon, dated 16 April 1851. 143.5x123cm. James Nasmyth, a Scottish engineer who had…
Greenland, Kangerlussuatsiaq, 10 August 1936 The boat Pourquoi-Pas? of Commandant Charcot left Kangerlussuatsiaq, after having landed Paul-Émile Victor, his eskimo family and all their equipment. On September 16, the…