Re: Bonestell's Evolution Of the Earth

["Kent A. Stevens" <kent@cs.uoregon.edu>]

Thank you Dan, doubly:  for the break from the phylomarathon, and for  
jogging early memories of Bonestell-induced wonder.  He had a similar  
impression on me, he and Burian.

Kent


On May 8, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

> Taking a break from the  "File-O-Code" (gasp!) stuff. Back in 1955  
> Life
> magazine published a series of  articles and a book titled, "The  
> World We Live In".
> This was the project that  made Rudolph Zallinger's Yale dinosaur  
> murals
> famous. As a six year-old kid,  however, none of the images  
> presented impressed me
> as much as Chesley  Bonestell's paintings. The one that really got  
> to me is
> now up for auction at  eBay. The painting shows the earth from its  
> origin to
> its distant end. When I  saw this, the concept of enormous time  
> began to sink
> into my little brain. It  was wonderful and frightening at the same  
> time. I
> believe the Boston Museum of  Science owned this at one time. I  
> wish all the
> paintings from this project could  be rephotographed and reproduced  
> once again. I
> hope this one finds a good home.  DV
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Orig-CHESLEY-BONESTELL-Painting-EVOLUTION-OF- 
> EARTH_W0QQite
> mZ220110348901QQihZ012QQcategoryZ972QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q 
> QcmdZVie
> wItem#ebayphotohosting
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