{"id":18550,"date":"2018-10-20T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18550"},"modified":"2018-10-20T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:18:29","slug":"lovecrafts-pocket-spectroscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/20\/lovecrafts-pocket-spectroscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s pocket spectroscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spectroscope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spectroscope.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A&#8230; &#8220;pocket spectroscope, which was the delight of my fellow students at H.S.H.S. [Hope Street High School, Providence]. It is unbelievably tiny &mdash; will go into a vest pocket without making much of a bulge &mdash; yet gives a neat, bright little spectrum, with clear Frauenhofer lines when directed at sunlight. Many are the times I have passed it around at school.&#8221; &mdash; Lovecraft, letter to Galpin, 29th August 1918.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/frau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/frau.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had the device for weather and possibly also his astronomy, as such a thing appears to have been specifically used in star-identification.  The light of a star would split into a distinctive banding of lines, and thus the identity of an unknown observed star could be confirmed. Although possibly his was not powerful enough to split the light of a distant star. He did have a larger $15 spectroscope in his weather station though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spect.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"211\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the conjunction here of: unknown | colour | space, in relation to a story like &#8220;The Colour out of Space&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&#8230; &#8220;pocket spectroscope, which was the delight of my fellow students at H.S.H.S. [Hope Street High School, Providence]. It is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/20\/lovecrafts-pocket-spectroscope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}