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Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780300239898 |
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Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Publication date: | 04/23/2019 |
Pages: | 232 |
Sales rank: | 792,494 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface: The Dawn-Light of Ravenna xi
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1 On the Hilltop 1
Chapter 2 To the Lighthouse 4
Chapter 3 The City of Stars 9
Chapter 4 Poetry and Sunspots 14
Chapter 5 "Black Star-Lore" 28
Chapter 6 Physical Astronomy 36
Chapter 7 Romantics 40
Chapter 8 Prisms 56
Chapter 9 The Notebook of the Sun 62
Chapter 10 The Gift of the Forest 78
Chapter 11 The Scarcity of Wasps in Kashmir 89
Chapter 12 Harmonic Structures 98
Chapter 13 "Dante and the Early Astronomers" 112
Chapter 14 Sun-Chasers 117
Chapter 15 Exploding the Sun 122
Chapter 16 Saturnalia 128
Chapter 17 Infinity and the Fly 131
Chapter 18 Wallal 138
Chapter 19 Departure 149
Chapter 20 Who's Who in the Moon 153
Chapter 21 The Maunder Minimum 159
Chapter 22 The Remade Universe 163
Chapter 23 Return to Origins 167
Chapter 24 Northern Lights 169
Epilogue: Kodai Dusk 177
Notes 181
Bibliography 199
Index 207