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The moon & the western imagination /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First modern planet
- How the Moon began: ideas of lunar reality in antiquity
- Epic journeys and flights of fancy: images of the Moon in Plutarch and Lucian
- Moon and medieval science: text and images before the twelfth century
- Later middle ages: from symbolism to naturalism
- First drawings of the lunar surface
- British contribution: William Gilbert and Thomas Harriot
- Galileo: maps without names
- Return to the text: literary explorations of lunar geography
- Efforts from France and Belgium: Peiresc-Gassendi and Van Langren
- Johannes Hevelius: a Moon of higher origins
- Riccioli: the Moon as a conflictual community
- Lunar legacy: names and the planets
- Lunar cycle.