The imagined sky : cultural perspectives / edited by Darrelyn Gunzburg.
Contributor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn [editor.]
Material type: TextPublisher: Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016Description: xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781791684; 1781791686Subject(s): Sky -- Miscellanea | Sky -- MythologyDDC classification: 202/.12 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL325.S5 I43 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903381115 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The strange history of British archaeoastronomy / Ronald Hutton -- Comets and meteors: the ignored explanations for myths and apocalypse / Patrick McCafferty -- Imagery and narrative in an ancient horoscope: P.Lond. 130 (Greek Horoscopes No. 81) / Roger Beck -- Reflections on the Farnese Atlas: exploring the scientific, literary and pictorial antecedents of the constellations on a Graeco-Roman globe / Kristen Lippincott -- Giotto's sky: the fresco paintings of the first floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy / Darrelyn Gunzburg -- Astrology as a social framework: the 'Children of Planets', 1400-1600 / Geoffrey Shamos -- Mapping the heavens: the ceiling of the Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace / Emily Urban -- Cosmos, culture and landscape: documenting, learning and sharing Australian aboriginal astronomical knowledge in contemporary society / John Goldsmith -- At night's end / Tyler Nordgren -- Reach for the stars! Light, vision and the atmosphere / Tim Ingold -- Images in the heavens: a cultural landscape / Bernadette Brady.