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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daugherty, Tracy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Evershed, Mary Acworth, > 1867-1949.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321 > Influence.
Women astronomers > England > Biography.
Astronomers > England > Biography.
Amateur astronomy > England > History.
Astronomy > England > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.