mediumaevum:

How Science Found the Loch Ness Monster

Walter of Bingham (d. c. 1197) was a minor cleric from Nottinghamshire who, unable to fulfill his vow to go on the Third Crusade, made a pilgrimage to the holy sites of Scotland.

Walter’s encounter with Nessie came one summer evening, as he approached the banks of the River Ness…But what is perhaps more remarkable is the drawing of Nessie, now severely faded and barely visible with the naked eye. 

Using a pioneering technique known as Re-Zoom Spectroscopy (RZS), scientists took multiple photographs of the page in question, which were overlaid and processed using a “Guggenheim manipulator”. The resulting image demonstrates that Walter of Bingham made a careful depiction of Nessie, and can now be revealed as the earliest known picture of the Loch Ness Monster.

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This is really cool. I want to know what the full text says tho. 

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘Songs for little people’ by Norman Gale; illustrated by Helen Stratton. Published 1896 by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh.

See the complete book here.

darling-pretty:

justinhoskie:

darling-pretty:

apparently people wanted the other slideshow and i have a geology midterm in the morning so clearly this was the right choice

You forgot to mention how awful PL Travers was.

My bad! I forgot that was in there and it added like at least 3 more slides but if you must know

fripperiesandfobs:

First Consul jacket owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800

From the Chateau de Malmaison Costume Collection app:

“This sumptuously embroidered jacket was given by the city of Lyon to the First Consul in 1800. He wore it on April 18, 1802 at the Te Deum ceremony held at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris after the signing of the Concordat. Napoleon took it with him to St. Helena. He gave it to the young Hortense Bertrand (daughter of an Empire general) who, when she was older, passed it on to Prince Victor Napoleon, grandson of King Jerome, Napoleon’s youngest brother.”