Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (110):
From the times of Victor Anestin and Percival Lowell
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On one of my walks (November 6, 2020), the vision of a statue with angels suddenly transported me in time before World War 1, in a close small park, in front of a superb building with astral details.
So… I was an amateur astronomer at that time (around 1910), who had just read an article which the great Romanian popularizer of astronomy Victor Anestin had published in his astronomical magazine, Orion, about the great American popularizer of astronomy, Percival Lowell, the one who, among many public services to the queen of science, had developed the theory of the Martian Canals.
What beautiful, romantic and enthusiastic times!
A day later (November 7, 2020), after I woke up from that dream, I went back to that building and...
I understood where the angels had come from:
even from the planet Mars!
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