Dante and the early astronomer : science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens /

In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Daugherty, Tracy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Evershed, Mary Acworth, > 1867-1949.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Influence.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321
Women astronomers > England > Biography.
Astronomers > England > Biography.
Amateur astronomy > England > History.
Astronomy > England > History.
Femmes astronomes > Angleterre > Biographies.
Astronomes > Angleterre > Biographies.
Astronomie amateur > Angleterre > Histoire.
Astronomie > Angleterre > Histoire.
SCIENCE > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Amateur astronomy
Astronomers
Astronomy
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women astronomers
England
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : The dawn-light of Ravenna
  • On the hilltop
  • To the lighthouse
  • The city of stars
  • Poetry and sunspots
  • "Black star-lore"
  • Physical astronomy
  • Romantics
  • Prisms
  • The notebook of the sun
  • The gift of the forest
  • The scarcity of wasps in Kashmir
  • Harmonic structures
  • "Dante and the early astronomers"
  • Sun-chasers
  • Exploding the sun
  • Saturnalia
  • Infinity and the fly
  • Wallal
  • Departure
  • Who's who in the moon
  • The Maunder minimum
  • The remade universe
  • Return to origins
  • Northern lights
  • Epilogue : Kodai dusk.

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