Every one knew how laborious the usual Method is of attaining to Arts and Sciences; whereas by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.

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A Proposal for Sending and Receiving Moving-Picture Signals between the Planets Earth and Mars by Means of Electric Telescope

Posted on Tuesday 15 June 2004

Here's a lovely piece of retro, a visualisation of the ideas of Charles Cros by American illustrator Roger Leyonmark. Leyonmark recalls reading Cros' Study on the Means of Communication with the Planets (1869) while at a library in Buffalo.

Cros, incidentally, didn't invent the Nipkow disk however even if he had he probably would have missed out on all the credit.


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