This is the Cornell box at Cantor (see Stargazing). Another writer's shrine of sorts, for those of us who love ancient star maps, mapping the constellations with all of their borrowings from the Greek myths. One of my favorite books is Astronomy of the Ancients (MIT Press), and especially one of its essays, The Gorgon's Eye, by Jerome Y. Lettvin. I'm intrigued too to find that the oldest mapping of the Pleiades, with its missing star, may have been made on rocks in the Valle d'Aosta, near the Plan de Sorcières—country I am fond of.
image: Christie B. Cochrell, Joseph Cornell's Untitled (Constellation)
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