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Dante and the early astronomer :

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0300244975

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9780300244977

Erroneous ISBN

0300239890

Erroneous ISBN

9780300239898

Title Proper

Dante and the early astronomer :

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[Book]

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science, adventure, and a victorian woman who opened the heavens /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tracy Daugherty.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: The Dawn-Light of Ravenna; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 On the Hilltop; CHAPTER 2 To the Lighthouse; CHAPTER 3 The City of Stars; CHAPTER 4 Poetry and Sunspots; CHAPTER 5 "Black Star-Lore"; CHAPTER 6 Physical Astronomy; CHAPTER 7 Romantics; CHAPTER 8 Prisms; CHAPTER 9 The Notebook of the Sun; CHAPTER 10 The Gift of the Forest; CHAPTER 11 The Scarcity of Wasps in Kashmir; CHAPTER 12 Harmonic Structures; CHAPTER 13 "Dante and the Early Astronomers"; CHAPTER 14 Sun-Chasers; CHAPTER 15 Exploding the Sun; CHAPTER 16 Saturnalia

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CHAPTER 17 Infinity and the FlyCHAPTER 18 Wallal; CHAPTER19 Departure; CHAPTER 20 Who's Who in the Moon; CHAPTER 21 The Maunder Minimum; CHAPTER 22 The Remade Universe; CHAPTER 23 Return to Origins; CHAPTER 24 Northern Lights; Epilogue: Kodai Dusk; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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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 the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.

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JSTOR

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OverDrive, Inc.

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22573/ctvfb7zzg

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5E88CB55-3147-49E6-99C8-DBD446715E72

Title

DANTE AND THE EARLY ASTRONOMER.

International Standard Book Number

0300239890

Science-- History.

Women astronomers.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science & Technology.

SCIENCE-- History.

Science.

Women astronomers.

BIO-- 015000

SCI-- 004000

SCI-- 034000

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Daugherty, Tracy

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20200822100520.0

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