Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (34):
On the Protestant Street
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
A short street in Central Bucharest should be named the Protestant Street just because it begins with the Lutheran Church (made in the 1850s and frequented especially by Germans - Transylvanian Saxons) and ends with the Calvineum complex (made in the 1930s and frequented especially by Magyars).
In October 2020
I thought here of the pastor David Fabricius - the first discoverer of a variable star, Mira Ceti -, Tycho Brahe and his nova, Simon Marius and the satellites of Jupiter, and Johannes Kepler and his laws of planetary motion, the first genial astronomers of the Lutheran world… and I didn’t forget Johannes Honterus, who wrote “Rudimenta Cosmographica” in the 16th century in the territory of current Romania, including the first versified handbook of astronomy… and I also thought of the “Calvinist Star”...
I admired the Sun’s bright walk
near the spire of the Lutheran Church (October 18, 2020)
and the brilliant meeting of the Moon and Jupiter
near the Calvineum complex (October 22, 2020),
right next to a garage.
Fortunately, I was too small for them to observe
my act of espionage.
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