#robert fitzroy

[beaglefanblog]

Things Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, wrote in letters to Charles Darwin:

(During the voyage of the Beagle, while Darwin was away from the ship exploring the interior of South America.)

I think of you every time the ship pitches, which is every few seconds

Are you dead? No wait you can't be dead I just got a letter from you

Come back and look at these crazy fossils I found! [gives a wildly exaggerated/physically impossible description of these alleged fossils]

Did you get my apology letter?* I promise to get my shit together

"Est avis in navibus Carlos rarissima Darwin" Charles Darwin is the rarest of birds aboard ship

Our friend's wife died but idk why he's sad, surely no one actually wants to be married to a woman

Come back I'll send you a boat I'll send you a boat literally whenever just please come back soon

Remember that guy you stole bones with??**

Here is two paragraphs of the imaginary conversation I'm having with you right now

Haha I didn't mean that I'm actually DRUNK ON TEA

At least you're not THAT far away I GUESS

PS I wish I could be excited about your adventures but I just wish you were here and I'm worried you'll get hurt

* The apology letter is lost. What was he apologising for? I guess we'll never know. ** FitzRoy gives no name but I MUST KNOW who stole bones with Charles Darwin, please lmk if you have a clue

#the man is DOWN BAD #fitzwin #hms beagle #history #charles darwin #robert fitzroy #golden age of sail #ofmd #aubrey/maturin #spirk

[meteorfitz]

my brain is nothing but about charles darwin and robert fitzroy and their stupid doomed yaoi relationship oh my god help me

#i just love them so much okay #their relationship is special and everything to me #i love analyzing their relationship I have a google docs for them omg #this is disaster #history #historical figures #fitzroy/darwin brain nourishment #hms beagle #charles darwin #robert fitzroy #or something

[tenth-sentence]

Sunday, April 3rd. – After service I accompanied Captain Fitz Roy to the settlement, situated at the distance of some miles, on the point of an islet thickly covered with tall cocoa-nut trees.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quote #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #april 3 #cocos islands #keeling islands #sunday service #robert fitzroy #settlement #islet #coconut tree

[whats-in-a-sentence]

April 27th. – I set out on a journey to Coquimbo, and thence through Guasco to Copiapó, where Captain Fitz Roy kindly offered to pick me up in the Beagle.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quotes #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #april 27 #journey #coquimbo #guasco #copiapó #copiapo #robert fitzroy #catch a ride

[mondokozmikova]

5 Eylül1831'de İngitere Deniz Kuvvetleri'nin dünya çevresinde uzun bir yolculuğa göndereceği H.M.S. Beagle'in (Majestelerin Gemisi Beagle) Kaptanı Robert Fitzroy bir doğa bilimcisi olarak henüz 22 yaşında olan Charles Darwin'i davet eder. İki adam birbirini tanımak bir yana mizaç ve yetiştirme tarzı olarak bu kadar farklı olamazlardı. Neredeyse her konuda birbirine karşı iki insan düşünün. Darwinler üst düzey Whiglerden (Liberal) olmasına karşın Fitzroylar aristokrat ve Tory (Muhafazakar) idiler.

Darwin'in genç oluşu, deneyimsizliği ve hatta yetiştirme tarzı aleyhine olan şeyler olmasına karşın Fitzroy ile çok iyi anlaştılar ve Dover'dan yola çıktılar. Kuru havuzda direkleri indirilmiş olaraj,k duran Beagle on topu olan, 242 tonluk, 27 metre boyunda gerçekten pek ufak bir gemiydi ve maundan yapılmıştı. Gemi mürettebatı yetmiş dört kişiden oluşmaktaydı; Fitzroy'un asistanı, bir doktor ve asistanı, harita çıkarma işlerinde Fitzroy'a yardımcı ulan bir üsteğmen, iki idari personel ve çok yetenekli bir gemi resamı 8zira, fotoğraf henüz portatif olarak kulanılmadığından , hemen her şey, tüm çevre, deniz, doğa, hayvanlar ve bitkiler, kısacası gördükleri her şey çizilmekteydi). Bunlar dışında mürettebat iki süvari ve iki yardımcısı, bir lostromo (Baş tayfa), bir marangoz, katipler, sekiz deniz eri, otuz dört tayfa ve altı miço'dan oluşuyordu. Son olarak ise gemide üç 'garip' yolcu daha vardı ki bunların hikayesi bu kısa anlatıdaki en fantastik ve olağandışı öyküdür. Okuyacağınız anlatı Beagle ve Charles Darwin'den ziyade o üç garip yolcunun sıradışı öyküsü aslında.

York Minster, Jeremy Buton ve Fuegia Basket adında bir de genç kız. Bunlar Horn Burnu civarındaki buzlarla kaplı Tierra De Fuego bölgesi yerlilerindendi. Fitzroy onları bir önceki seferinde gemiye almış (Jemmy Button'u birkaç 'düğme' karşılığı satın almıştı mesela) ve bu tuhaf isimleri takmıştı. Tüm masraflarını üstlenerek İngiltere'de bir yıl eğitmiş, sonra da onları Kral Wiliam ve Kraliçe Adeladie'e takdim etmişti. Kraliçe şapkalarından birini Fuega'ya hediye etmiş, parmağına bir yüzük takmış ve giyecek alması için bir kese para vermişti.

Onlar şimdi çat pat ingilizceleri, Avrupalı giysileri ve satın aldıkları bir sürü avrupa öteberisi ile (Şarap bardakları, Tereyağ tabakları, Çorba kaseleri, Maun bir tuvalet çantası, Kastor kürk şapkaları vs) Hristiyanlığı ve uygarlığı yaymak için dünyanın öbür ucundaki ülkelerine geri dnüyorlardı.

Yolculuğun başında koyu bir hıristiyan olan ancak gördükleri, izledikleri ve bilimsel çıkarımları ile ülkesine yepyeni bir insan olarak dönen Darwin bu yazının konusu değil.

Sonundaysa uygun bir hava yakalayıp Londra Misyonerler Derneği'nin gönderdiği eşyaları (metal lazımlıklar, porselenler, yatak çarşafları ve o yörede işe yaramayacak dört sandal dolusu eşya) Jemmy'nin ana vatanı Ponsonbury'e doğru yola çıktılar ve biri orada kalacak bir misyoner, biri Jimmy ve bir diğeri gemide, yolculuk sırasında sevgili olmuş Fuegia ve York Minster için üç kulübe ve ekip, biçmeleri için bahçeler yaptılar. Jimmy'nin annesi, iki kız kardeşi ve dört erkek kardeşi dağdan yanlarına geldiğinde hayli sıkıntılı anlar yaşandı. Jimmy eski dilini neredeyse unutmuştu. Onun bütün haşmetiyle İngiliz takım elbisesi ve düğmeli, deri botları kuşanmış görünce kadınlar kaçtı, erkek kardeşleri ise birbirleriyle ilk defa karşılaşan vahşi hayvanlar gibi birbirlerini koklayıp, etraflarında dönüp, hiç konuşmadılar. Fitzroy'un inancı, zavalı Fuegia Basket'çik ve arkadaşlarının bu vahşilere kutsal ışığı götüreceklerini gerçekten inanacak kadar kuvvetliydi.

Fitzroy'un vahşi Fuegalılar üzerine yaptığı denemenin en ufak bir başarı şansı olduğuna Darwin asla inanmıyordu. İlk karşılaşmalarından sonra giderek daha açgözlü olmuşlardı. Herhangi bir şey istediklerinde -bir bıçak-bir mendil-bir bardak- 'yomerschooner' diyorlardı ve kısa zamanda her şey 'yomerschooner' olmuştu. Jeremy Buton, Darwin'e Fuegiaların yamyam olduklarını söylemişti. Kaptan Fuegiaların neden köpek yemediğini sorduğunda aldığı cevap ürperticiydi ' Köpek samur yakalar, kadın yapamaz, erkekler aç!'

Fitzroy ve Beagle And dağlarını araştırmak için onları bir misyoner ile yaptıkları kulübeler ve bahçeler ile yörede bıraktı ve anca bir sene sonra geriye döndü. Geriye dönenlerin gördükleri korkunçtu: Evler yıkılıp, yağmalanmış, genç bir kız olan Fuegia giysilerini terk edip eski kabilesi ile kaçmıştı. Aynı şeyi giysilerini yakıp eski arkadaşlarına karışıp kaybolan York Minster için de geçerliydi. Sadece Jimmy ve bıraktıkları misyoner oradaydı. Misyoner tükenmişti artık ama Jimmy kıyafetlerini yakıp eski görüntüsüne (Yanaklarında iki kırmızı yuvarlak boya olan, siyaha boyanmış bi yüz, sadece cinsel bölgesini örten bir kumaş parçası) kavuşmuştu. Gemiye çıktı ama geri dönmeyi kesinlikle reddetti. Fitzroy incinmiş, şoke olmuş ve şaşırmıştı. Bu insanlara kötülük amaçlamamış, sadece yardım etmek istemişti. Tüm hayal kırıklığıyla yola çıkmaya karar verdi. Jemmy'yi ise son olarak, kıyıdaki kamp ateşi ışığında, Darwin'in deyimiyle , kollarını 'son bir veda' için sallayan bir silüet olarak gördüler.

Kaynakça:

-Darwin ve Beagle Serüveni. Alan Morehead

-Narrative of the Surveying Voyages H.M.S.Beagle. Cilt 1,2 Robert Fitzroy

-Narrative of the Surveying Voyages H.M.S.Beagle. Cilt 3, Charles Darwin0

#Darwin #Beagle #Robert fitzroy

[lulu2992]

Speaking of BioShock Infinite, have I ever told you about that time I made a timeline of the BioShock series?

Tumblr made the image smaller so I’ve uploaded the original here :)

It’s far from being exhaustive because the reason I drew this in the first place was to make sure I really understood Infinite (the ending, especially) and Burial at Sea, so only the most significant and/or pivotal events are featured here. I later added some stuff from the other two games and the Minerva’s Den DLC after playing them. However, the novel BioShock: Rapture isn’t included because I haven’t read it (and it seems it’s generally not considered canon anyway).

I made this 8 years ago (with Paint, haha) but very recently translated it and made some adjustments so I could post it! I didn’t check everything I wrote because it’s been a while since I’ve really thought about the lore of BioShock, so I decided to trust my 2015 self and assume she knew what she was doing :’)

#2015 lulu was too insecure to show this to anyone #look me we finally did it 🫂 #feel free to correct this or ask questions! #bioshock #bioshock 2 #minerva’s den #bioshock infinite #burial at sea #the canonicity of 2 is debatable partly because the original creator wasn’t involved #but I still like it and it’s a bioshock game so I’ve included it #that said ken levine himself retconned many things so yeah #booker dewitt #elizabeth comstock #anna dewitt #zachary comstock #rosalind lutece #robert lutece #daisy fitzroy #chen lin #andrew ryan #jack ryan #eleanor lamb #subject delta #sofia lamb #subject sigma #brigid tenenbaum #grace holloway #stanley poole #gilbert alexander

[something-in-the-seas]

I make art sometimes, but not today.

#bioshock #bas critical #booker dewitt #elizabeth comstock #frank fontaine #robert lutece #rosalind lutece #andrew ryan #sander cohen #yi suchong #jack wynand #daisy fitzroy

[sleepy-stories]

#all animatics in one #six the kids musicals #six the kids #edward vi #edward 6 #jane grey #bloody mary #mary i #mary of scots #elizabeth i #robert dudley #henry fitzroy #susan clarencieux #barnaby fitzpatrick #our story animatic #if i was a boy animatic #save myself animatic #numb animatic #bloody mary animatic #never enough praying animatic #part of me animatic #sorry not sorry animatic #i lived animatic #centuries animatic #youtube #Youtube

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Look... I know they want us to believe Jean is dead here as a realy “gasp!” style cliffhanger... but with her being like “There is only one hope blah blah blah” it is obvious she was plotting something and my money is on she will be ok and moving by no later than the middle of the next book...

#Marvel #Uncanny X Men #Ororo Munroe ~ Storm #Piotr Rasputin ~ Colossus #Jean Grey ~ Marvel Girl #Warren Worthington III ~ Archangel #Bobby Drake ~ Iceman #Robert Kelly #Trevor Fitzroy

[ltwilliammowett]

The Father of Forecast

After Captain Pringle Stokes committed suicide on the Beagle, Lieutenant Robert Fitzroy became her captain. In February 1829, his ship was blown onto the beams by a sudden violent gust. Only great seamanship saved the day, but two sailors were swept from the rigging and drowned. Immediately before the squall, the barometric pressure had dropped sharply, and Fitzroy's traumatic experience led him to wonder whether a more systematic means of predicting bad weather could not be devised.

Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy (1805-65), by Samual Lane,c. 1837 (x)

In 1845 he proposed distributing barometers along the British coast to give early warning of storms, but nothing came of it. In 1854, the Board of Trade established a meteorological department and Fitzroy was appointed its head. In 1857, Fitzroy, who was by then an admiral, designed a simple, sturdy Fishery Barometer (which soon became known as the Fitzroy Barometer), engraved with meteorological rhymes, such as "When the rise begins after the low, we expect storms and a clear wind."

An  Admiral Fitzroy Barometer by Eg Wood Of London, c. 1880 (x)

With the financial support of some philanthropists, he distributed 100 of these barometers to various maritime centres and life-saving stations. Despite his efforts, a well-preserved ship, the Royal Charter, sank in a storm off the Welsh coast in 1859, killing nearly 400 people. The tragedy led to a call for the Meteorological Department to expand its activities, not only collecting weather statistics but also using the new telegraph network to send storm warnings to coastal centres even when the storm was probably already underway. Fitzroy went further and expanded his department into a unit for making weather forecasts, a term he had coined in 1855.

By 1861, Fitzroy had established a comprehensive system for issuing weather information and storm warnings, which he coordinated from his London office. He then produced a daily weather forecast that was published in The Times - something no one had seriously attempted before. However, the forecasts inevitably attracted attention when they were wrong, and Fitzroy was publicly ridiculed and condemned in the House of Commons. In his efforts to improve the quality of his predictions, Fitzroy worked until he dropped.

This is the very first public weather forecast written in FitzRoy's own hand on the Daily Weather Report for 31st July 1861. It forecast the weather for the 1st and 2nd August. On the page Fitzroy notes that he believes the forecasts might be advantageously added to the observation information already published in the newspapers and if approved of he would continue them on similar principles.(x)

When he became numb and suffered from exhaustion, depression and the fact that he had been passed over for promotions on several occasions, Admiral Fitzroy committed suicide at his home in Surrey on 30 April 1865. It was a tragic echo of the fate of the captain of HMS Beagle, whose post he had taken over. When the Finisterre maritime area was renamed in 2002 to avoid confusion with the Spanish maritime area of the same name, the Meteorological Office chose the name Fitzroy in honour of its founder.

#naval history #admiral robert fitzroy #forecast #hms beagle #mid 19th century #age of sail

[fideidefenswhore]

"Anne's name was reviled as far as the Welsh hinterland, areas staying loyal to Katherine and to Princess Mary, who, like her mother, had lived for a while at Ludlow. In 2004, a forgotten sixteenth-century Welsh poem by Lewy Morgannwg entitled "To Henry VIII because he married Anne Boleyn" was reliably transcribed and edited. In this fascinating piece, the poet echoes popular opinion by choosing to castigate Anne was the reincarnation of Alice and Rowena, two legendary women synonymous in Welsh literature with betrayal, poison, and murder. 'Do not suppress those of gentle birth and favour those of lowly estate,' the poet warns Henry in a clear reference to the differences between Anne and Katherine. Nor should Henry elevate 'one of low blood to be a prince'-- a possible allusion to Richmond, or to the son Anne promised to give him. While it is unlikely that the poet would have dared to publish his work while Anne's star was so high, its very existence, had she known of it, and the feelings it expressed, would have comforted the exiled Katherine." Sister Queens (2012), Julia Fox

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"But Anne would have been even more satisfied still if she had been able to read a despatch written by Chapuys on 10 August [1535]. For the [Summer] Progress, he reported gloomily, was achieving its aim of 'gaining the people": 'The king is still in the confines of Wales, hunting and traversing the country to gain the people; [where it is] said many of the peasants he has passed, hearing the preachers who followed the court, are so much abused to believe God has inspired the king to separate himself from the wife of his brother.'" The Queens of Henry VIII (2004), David Starkey

#things that make you go hmmmm #she doesn't seem to understand the context given the other historians that have wrote about it place it not as a 'warning' but #rather a congratulation...also timing wise it seems likelier this was an allusion to cromwell #speifically being promoted to lord privy seal #not thomas boleyn. so like in keeping with the complains of the pilgrimage of grace #and robert aske etc #and given timing i would assume the last references fitzroy as well....possibly before news of his death reached wales? #*complaints

[beaglefanblog]

what if we spent every evening together on a tiny ship thousands of miles from home and developed a profound attachment to one another as each other’s only true companions and wrote letters full of tender yearning every time we were apart and supported each other’s scientific minds until we got back to England and it all fell apart and then you used the data from the voyage to uncover some existentially horrifying science facts which drove us even further apart and by the time we learned how to love each other as flawed human beings beyond our mutual youthful hero-worship I was already dead

I’m js what if we kissed on the second voyage of HMS Beagle

hahaha jk… unless…

#I will not rest #until the world knows how gay and heartbreaking it was #fitzwin #Robert FitzRoy #Charles Darwin #age of sail #science history

[meteorfitz]

You know what it's time for me to make a REAL Second Voyage HMS Beagle fiction book that actually doesn't downgrade one historical figure for the development of another, ok This Thing of Darkness downgrades Darwin ermm...The Darwin Conspiracy well kinda downgrades Fitzroy so yk what.

#history #historical figures #hms beagle #robert fitzroy #charles darwin #fitzwin #this thing of darkness

[tenth-sentence]

Captain Fitz Roy took a party there this day to hear divine service, first in the Tahitian language, and afterwards in our own.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quote #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #robert fitzroy #sunday service #tahiti #pacific islands #november 22

[grande-caps]

The Gray Man

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#grandecaps #the gray man #the gray man netflix #the graymanedit #ryan gosling #six #chris evans #lloyd hansen #ana de armas #dani miranda #Billy Bob Thornton #fitzroy #regé jean page #carmichael #jessica henwick #suzanne brewer #alfre woodard #margaret cahill #robert kazinsky #callan mulvey #russo brothers #capped by macfraser82

[shsenhaji]

📚 June Reading Round-Up 📚

So, I read some great books in June, as well as in May. Since I didn’t do a reading round-up for May, I’ll include them here.

Books I read in June:

- Penric’s Progress by Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric my beloved)

- Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree (so cute and cozy)

- Sword Dance by AJ Demas (loved the romance)

- Saffron Alley by AJ Demas (very fun, cute, entertaining)

- Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger (re-read)

- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (epic yet intimate, unexpected in the best of ways)

- Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra (Fluff and Fangs edition - loved the worldbuilding and character development and prose)

- The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert (short but entertaining read, loved the characterization)

- A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (ARC; review to come)

- A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova (loved the premise, the characters, and the romance)

- Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (re-read)

Books I read in May:

- Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney (amazing!!!!)

- Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson (loved the themes and character development, as well the worldbuilding)

- Gleam by Raven Kennedy (great character growth)

- Spy x Family Volumes 1, 2, 3  by Tatsuya Endo (so funny and cute and all the found family feels)

- Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa (read up to Fullmetal Edition Volume 3; favourite anime, love the manga so far)

- The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard (re-read, so funny and emotional)

- The Hanged Man by KD Edwards (great sequel)

- The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul by Victoria Goddard (so immersive and amazing and satisfying)

- Witchlings by Claribel Ortega (very cute)

- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (great read, loved the themes and worldbuilding)

- Heaven Official’s Blessing Volume 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (Hualian invented love, Xie Lian my beloved)

#mine #books #reading #reading round-up #penric and desdemona #legends and lattes #sword dance #gail carriger #brandon sanderson #hunger pangs: true love bites #the dragon's bride #katee robert #a strange and stubborn endurance #terry pratchett #elise kova #spy x family #fma #saint death's daughter #the tarot sequence #the return of fitzroy angursell #the redoubtable Pali Avramapul #witchlight tag #ancillary justice #heaven official's blessing #hualian