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The Halls of Fame

‘What they are saying is simply not true!’ they whispered. The gossip spread like wildfire. It stirred up strife. Leviathan was angry! The bricks on his back stood up.

The beast towered above the large castle close to it. A strange tube-like neck protruded from a large brick-body. The head was gone! Who decapitated the beast? About sixteen meters tall, the neck stretched and stretched high into the night sky. The back of this beautiful beast was curved – down into the ground. During the dark night, you could see the outline of a headless monster. It was the silhouette of a real monster. Sinister stairs led up onto the back of the beast. Stairs were installed at the front and the back. They had the animal under control. The treads looked like large scales. Could this large monster be tamed and controlled? Nobody seemed to know.

Parsonstown’s Leviathan was a real dragon. It’s probing eye could see far into the dark unknown. It sent images of spectacular celestial objects to the brain of William. Soon pictures followed of the vast visions of Leviathan. The church was disturbed.

Not long after that, a book appeared that stunned everyone: ‘The origin of Species.’ Again, the church-folk was in turmoil. The pictures of space and now the claims of Charles were getting under their skin. They did not like it at all. It threatened the church, the Bible, and their beliefs. Science has turned their stable world upside down. What could they do?

It is 1846.

The divisive beast had divided them. The community were torn in two.

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Personal Construct Theory: The way we as individuals see the world

The world’s thinking had been challenged during the Industrial Revolution (1750 to 1840). So many new things were suddenly created.

Let us look at how we are influenced to view the world. We are influenced by our personal interpretations. We all see a different world, we have our own interpretation.

The Personal Construct theory is an excellent theory that endeavours to understand how we, as individuals, see the world. We all see it through different lenses!

From the Author’s sketchbook: IRELAND – FEBRUARY 17: Engraving from the Illustrated London News, showing the machinery used to move the telescope known as ‘The Leviathan of Parsonstown’. The Rosse telescope, an instrument with a six-foot speculum (mirror), was the largest in the world for 75 years, only being superseded by the 100-inch reflector at Mount Wilson, California 1917. It was built by William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse, at Birr Castle in Ireland between 1842 and 1844. In William Herschel’s tradition, Rosse used reflecting telescopes because their light-gathering power was superior to that of lens telescopes. Rosse discovered the spiral structure of the Andromeda nebula with the telescope in 1850. (Credit caption – Getty Images)

From the Author’s sketchbook: IRELAND – MAY 14, 1880: A sketch of the Great Rosse reflecting telescope, taken from the east by Lieutenant Colonel Harry J Watson whilst he was posted to nearby Newbridge (inspired from a photograph). Constructed in Parsonstown (now Birr) in Ireland by William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), it was soon known as the ‘Leviathan of Parsonstown’. The reflecting telescope – with its later equatorial mounting – used a six-foot metal mirror weighing four tons. This was mounted in a 15 m tube slung by chains between massive masonry walls. Rosse used his great instrument to determine the nature of nebulae, misty patches in the sky. He was the first to discover that some had spiral forms, now known to be remote and massive islands of stars like our own Milky Way Galaxy. (Credit caption: Getty Images)

See the short video – an aerial view of Leviathan:

County Offaly sits in the agricultural heartland of Ireland and is home to a world-record-breaking telescope. The Leviathan of Parsonstown, nicknamed ‘The Great Telescope’, was the largest of its kind for 72 years and was created by the Third Earl of Rosse in 1845, who sketched some of the first ever images of distant galaxies. Today, the historic telescope is accompanied by a modern invention – the world’s largest low-frequency telescope array, which is now being used by scientists to unravel big questions in solar physics, that once seemed impossible. Source: YouTube