{"id":51213,"date":"2021-12-01T03:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=51213"},"modified":"2022-04-11T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:25:43","slug":"lovecrafts-first-letter-in-its-magazine-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/12\/01\/lovecrafts-first-letter-in-its-magazine-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s first letter in its magazine context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/294573958067\">Currently on eBay<\/a>, H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s first publication. In <em>Scientific American<\/em> for 25th of August 1906<\/a>. In those days <em>Scientific American<\/em> was about science, not politics.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to note that this had a cover featuring the New Croton Dam (construction 1892-1906), given the later subject-matter of &#8220;The Colour out of Space&#8221;. The Dam and its vast lake gathered and sent the first out-of-city supply of water to New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft proposed a multi-observatory photographic method of discovering a planet beyond Neptune, at the edge of the solar system. He goes so far as to suggest, basic on his own cosmic observations, that a spot known to him at &#8220;50 units&#8221; out would be the place to start. The planet Pluto (yes, it is a planet) is sometimes at that distance, a textbook stating it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>averages 40 astronomical units from the Sun, but it ranges from 30 units to 50 units.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It might be interesting for the forthcoming book on Lovecraft&#8217;s astronomy to determine: i) when and how he was making the observations that led him to propose &#8220;50 units&#8221;; and ii) if Pluto was indeed at 50 units out at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on eBay, H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s first publication. In Scientific American for 25th of August 1906. In those days Scientific American &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/12\/01\/lovecrafts-first-letter-in-its-magazine-context\/\">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-51213","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\/51213","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=51213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53308,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51213\/revisions\/53308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}