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The imagined sky : cultural perspectives / edited by Darrelyn Gunzburg.

Contributor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn, 1954- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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.
Contents:
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.

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.

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