Celestial Sleuth Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
Many mysteries in art, history, and literature can be solved using “forensic” astronomy, including calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, such studies spark our imaginatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Popular Astronomy
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I Astronomy in Art
- Van Gogh’s Lost Night Sky
- Van Gogh’s “Moonrise (Wheat Stacks)
- Van Gogh’s Starry Nights
- Edvard Munch and the Blood-Red Sky of “The Scream”
- Edvard Munch’s “Girls on the Pier”
- Edvard Munch’s Starry Nights
- Monet in London
- Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise”
- The Moonrise Photographs of Ansel Adams
- Canaletto’s Night Festival Paintings of Venice
- The Night Skies of J. M. W. Turner
- Part II Astronomy in History
- The Moon and the Marathon
- Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britiain
- The Boston Tea Party
- Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride
- Lincoln and the Almanac Trial
- Lincoln and the Leonids
- Stonewall Jackson’s Fatal Full Moon
- John Muir and Moonbows
- World War II – Pearl Harbor and the Waning Moon
- World War II: The Tide at Tarawa
- World War II: D-Day in Normandy
- World War II: “I’ll Met by Moonligh” – The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
- What’s a Blue Moon
- Did the Moon Sink the Titanic?
- Part III Astronomy in Literature
- Chaucer – Moon, Tides, and “The Franklin’s Tale”
- Chaucer – Lunar Motion in “The Merchant’s Tale”
- Identifying a Meteor in James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
- William Blake’s “The Tiger”
- False Dawn in the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”