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The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton Shaving Brush Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th-century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies — the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy

It is the rare Victorian plate that treats darkness not as absence

The Celestial Mechanics of Shadow and Light — Part A is the first movement in a Victorian selenographic meditation

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