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How far did it reach? Krakatoa, August 1883

The Royal Society's 1888 report on screen: a police chief's account nearly 3,000 miles away, a London barometer's seven passages, and the committee's probable moment checked against a gas-works gauge.

Made with
Investigation Film
Scene · film type
Documentary & evidence · Investigations
Format
16:9 · 107 s
Sources
A public-domain scan of the report; one quiet line for the lives lost, in the report's own figure.

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Were they stars? Galileo, January 1610

Galileo's notebook and his printed book, night by night from 7 to 13 January, the drawings ringed and matched; a famous page the library itself calls a forgery set aside.

Example of Investigation Film16:9 · 84 s

Public-domain scans from Florence's national library and the Smithsonian; Carlos's 1880 translation.