{"title":"Science \u0026 Cosmos","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first photographs of ferns and an early atlas of the stars — science when it was still an act of wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"anna-atkins-cyanotype","title":"Anna Atkins — Spiræa aruncus","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA plant's shadow, printed in light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTo make this, Anna Atkins laid a stalk of goat's-beard (\u003cem\u003eSpiræa aruncus\u003c\/em\u003e) on paper brushed with iron salts and left it in the sun. Where the plant blocked the light, the paper stayed white; everywhere else it turned Prussian blue. This is a \u003cstrong\u003ecyanotype\u003c\/strong\u003e — a photograph made without a camera, one of the earliest photographic processes. We chose it for a reason: a cyanotype is already a flat, two-tone print — white silhouette on blue — so it screenprints with total fidelity. The garment is the blue. The ink is the light. Nothing is redrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eAnna Atkins (1799–1871) was a British botanist and, by most accounts, the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs — \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e (1843). She made hundreds of these blue impressions of algae, ferns, and flowers, turning a scientific record into images that still look like the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eAnna Atkins · \u003cem\u003eSpiræa aruncus\u003c\/em\u003e (goat's-beard), cyanotype · 1851–54 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2004.172 · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. 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This is the Orion plate, a line engraving by Alexander Mair. An engraving is pure line, so it screenprints faithfully in a single ivory ink — and on an indigo shirt it becomes a negative of the night sky, exactly as you'd look up and see it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eJohann Bayer (1572–1625), a German lawyer and astronomer, gave us the Bayer designations — the star-lettering system still in use four centuries on. \u003cem\u003eUranometria\u003c\/em\u003e (1603) paired rigorous positions with figures of real beauty, across 51 plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eJohann Bayer · \u003cem\u003eOrion · Uranometria\u003c\/em\u003e, Augsburg 1603 · engraved by Alexander Mair · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. 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Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/orion-the-stars-still-wear-his-letters\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#23345e;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566861924,"sku":"SA-ORION-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48721034346596,"sku":"SA-ORION-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48721034379364,"sku":"SA-ORION-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48721034412132,"sku":"SA-ORION-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48721034444900,"sku":"SA-ORION-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48721034477668,"sku":"SA-ORION-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/johann-bayer-orion-1.jpg?v=1783890138"},{"product_id":"oliver-byrne-elements-of-euclid","title":"Oliver Byrne — The Elements of Euclid","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eGeometry as pure colour — seventy years before Mondrian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIn 1847 the Irish mathematician Oliver Byrne did something no one had dared: he taught Euclid without words. Where the ancient proofs leaned on letters and symbols, Byrne used blocks of pure colour — red, blue, yellow and black — so a proof could simply be \u003cem\u003eseen\u003c\/em\u003e. This is Proposition I.47, the Pythagorean theorem: the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides. It was a commercial disaster — colour printing ran each page through the press once for every ink — and its unsold stock helped bankrupt the publisher in 1853; a century later Edward Tufte made it a landmark of information design. The colours are Byrne's, not ours. Four flat spot inks, hard edges, no halftones: a page born to be screen-printed. The natural shirt is the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eOliver Byrne (1810–1880) was an Irish mathematician and surveyor. His \u003cem\u003eFirst Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1847) was far ahead of its time and is now considered one of the most beautiful books ever printed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eOliver Byrne · \u003cem\u003eThe Elements of Euclid, Proposition I.47\u003c\/em\u003e · London, 1847 · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. 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