unknown shore

“The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Arts, and Sciences,” Volume 13 (1829) redacted into a poem.

The Celestial Worlds Discovered: Redacted Poem

Christiaan Huygens’ “The Celestial Worlds Discovered” redacted into a poem. (I used the 2nd edition, published 1722.)

Micrographia: Redacted poem

Robert Hooke’s 1665 “Micrographia” redacted into a poem about the Feb. 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor. (For the redaction, I used “Extracts from Micrographia,” a 1906 reprint for ease of reading.)

Hope hov’rest near

Bits of Henry Ingram’s 1815 poem “The Flower of Wye” borrowed to create a poem about the International Space Station. The initial cap “H” is part of an ISS image (photo credit: Peter Stetson and John Stetson).
The background text is a 2004 Congressional Budget Office budgetary analysis of NASA’s future space vision.

My heart-blood grown fast: a valentine

Entry for “galaxy” and collocated entries in Samuel Johnson’s 1805 “A Dictionary of the English Language” (Vol. II) redacted into a valentine.

Wanderlust #2

This April 4, 1968 picture of the unmanned Apollo 6 mission launch was taken from a chase plane. (Image credit: NASA.) The poem text comes from a 1909 poem in “The Public” called “Wanderlust.” Phrases from other collocated articles were added in.

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences: Redacted Poem

A page of Galileo’s “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences” redacted into a poem. (I used Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio’s 1914 translation for this effort.) The frame is a star field in Cepheus captured by the Dawn mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL /MPS/DLR/IDA