Eclipse and Revelation

Eclipse and Revelation

Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

Lange, Henrike; McLeish, Tom

Oxford University Press

02/2024

384

Dura

Inglês

9780192857996

15 a 20 dias

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Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York): Preface - "Cosmos" is for Harmony
Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York): Introduction - Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse: On the Road and in the Archive
PART I - COSMOS
1: Tom McLeish (University of York) and Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association): The Cosmic Clockwork: The How and When of Total Solar Eclipses
2: Jay Pasachoff (Williams College): The Unveiling of the Corona
3: Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College Oxford): Pre-Modern Astronomies of Eclipses in the Near-East and Europe
4: Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association): From Science to Story: Testimony of an Eclipse Chaser
PART II - HISTORY AND RELIGION
5: John Steele (Brown University): Solar Eclipses Across Early Asia
6: Giles Gasper (Durham University): 'The Face of the World Was Wretched, Horrifying, Black, Remarkable: Solar Eclipses in the Middle Ages
7: Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln): Annus Tenebrosus: Black Monday, Faith, and Political Fervour in Early Modern England
8: David Bentley Hart (NDIAS): Signs and Portents: Reflections on the History of Solar Eclipses
PART III - ARTS AND LITERATURE
9: Alison Cornish (New York University): Dante's Total Eclipses
10: Roberta J.M. Olson (Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library): Eclipsed? The Nineteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology
11: Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley): Total Eclipse of the Art: Vision, Occlusion, Representation
12: Elaine Stratton Hild (Universitaet Wuerzburg): When Words Fail: Eclipse, Music, and Sound
PART IV - ANIMALS, WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT
13: Steven Portugal (Royal Holloway): Animal Behaviour and Eclipse
14: Giles Harrison (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading): Weather and the Solar Eclipse: Nature's Meteorological Experiment
Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) and Tom McLeish (University of York): Conclusion - The Moon and the Sun in the Afternoon
Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association): APPENDIX - The Eclipse Chaser's Toolkit
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