Lizards, Salamanders and the Constellation Lacerta
There are over 7000 species of lizard and they can be found on every continent except Antarctica. They are fascinating, beautiful, diverse, but are not as a whole symbolic. But there is a lizard that has its own constellation - Lacerta - that is important enough to still be one of the 88 modern constellations. So in this video we will take a look at lizards, and especially Salamanders. And we will also take a look at the role Father Athanasius Kircher - a Jesuit - and the museum he created in the Roman College, played in convincing Johannes Hevelius that he had seen "Salamanders" scurrying about in the sun.
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CREDITS
REFERENCES
Alchemy - https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/alchemy/190
Johannes Hevelius and His World, Astronomer, Cartographer, Philosopher and Correspondent - Institute For The History Of Science, Polish Academy Of Sciences Copernicus Centre For Interdisciplinary Studies - Warsaw 2013
PAINTINGS
The constellation Camaeleon (Chamaeleon) as depicted in Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's Atlas Coelestis, ca. 1742.
Draco coils around the north celestial pole, as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825
Lacerta can be seen on the left of this 1825 star map from Urania's Mirror
The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of "fat" Paracelsus
La danza de las hadas, obra de August Malmström (1866).
Galileo before the Holy Office - Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, 1847
Salamander as the animal emblem of King Francis I of France at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Vienne, France
PHOTOS
A number of the photos were taken by Luc Vercruysse. With very kind permission
VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE
Watch a 'solar snake' slither across the sun in orbiter view
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=krWsmVlpQIQ
Lizard-Iguana-Kadal-Reeptile
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Ao5CAmCmGMY
lizard stock footage
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Vmtw4tTbz44
Lizard free stock Footage
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OD45nb7ISVw
Fire salamander portrait
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=t8QWO-izy9g
Free Salamander Stock Video Footage Vidsplay com
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wwxZ9qk7BpE
Komodo Dragon
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=5X2FzJy0ZuA
fire salamander
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zyNGBrBM2Kg
MUSIC
00:00 Indigo - Eveningland
01:34 Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100251
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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08:18 On Foot - Underbelly & Ty Mayer
10:07 Says to Speculation - pATCHES
13:35 Verve - Benjamin Martins
15:02 Indigo - Eveningland
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