Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth Using Astronomy to Solve More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Olson, Donald W. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Popular Astronomy,
• Θέματα: Astronomy.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Fine arts.; Physics.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Fine Arts.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Astronomy in Art
• Chapter 1: Monet in London, J. M. W. Turner, and Ford Madox Brown
• Chapter 2: Monet in Étretat, Édouard Manet, and Vincent van Gogh
• Chapter 3: Caspar David Friedrich, Canaletto, and Edvard Munch
• Chapter 4: Monet in Le Havre: Origins of Impressionism
• Chapter 5: VJ Day Times Square Kiss, and Ansel Adams in Alaska
• Part II: Astronomy in History
• Chapter 6: Braveheart and the Battle of Stirling Bridge, the Discovery of the Ring Nebula, and the 1913 Great Meteor Procession
• Chapter 7: World War II and the Korean War
• Part III: Astronomy in Literature
• Chapter 8: Literary Skies Before 1800
• Chapter 9: Literary Skies After 1800
• Part IV: The Terrestrial Sleuth
• Chapter 10: J.M.W. Turner and the Great Western Railway, and John Everett Millais and an Ancient Oak
• Index.