Eclipse and Revelation

Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.

ISBN:

9780192857996

Publication date:

01/05/2024

Hardback

382 pages

We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.

ISBN:

9780192857996

Publication date:

01/05/2024

Hardback

382 pages

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

The book delivers a unique framework and an entirely new model of truly interdisciplinary scholarship across the sciences, arts, humanities, history, and theology. This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.

Rights:  World Rights

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

Description

Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology?

The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes - into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology.

Carefully prepared for readers from all backgrounds, these voices invite us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions. A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses emerges, itself rising to a model of communal thinking, together, across disciplinary borders.

This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.

About the editors:

Henrike Lange is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Historian of art, architecture, and literature, Lange is best known for her work on Italian medieval and Renaissance art and literature, including her publications on artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, and research on writers such as Augustine, Dante, and Petrarch.

Tom McLeish FRS was Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. Theoretical physicist and "penseur anglais" (Emmanuel Macron), McLeish is best known for his groundbreaking work in soft matter physics and polymers, rheology, history of science, and theology of science, and as a Reader in the Anglican Church. He was awarded the 2018 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship and his scientific-theological legacy includes the Christian leadership in the sciences initiative, ECLAS (Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science). Eclipse & Revelation is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament.

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

Table of contents

PART I - COSMOS
1:The Cosmic Clockwork: The How and When of Total Solar Eclipses, Tom McLeish (University of York) and Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
2:The Unveiling of the Corona, Jay Pasachoff (Williams College)
3:Pre-Modern Astronomies of Eclipses in the Near-East and Europe, Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College Oxford)
4:From Science to Story: Testimony of an Eclipse Chaser, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
PART II - HISTORY AND RELIGION
5:Solar Eclipses Across Early Asia, John Steele (Brown University)
6:'The Face of the World Was Wretched, Horrifying, Black, Remarkable: Solar Eclipses in the Middle Ages, Giles Gasper (Durham University)
7:Annus Tenebrosus: Black Monday, Faith, and Political Fervour in Early Modern England, Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
8:Signs and Portents: Reflections on the History of Solar Eclipses, David Bentley Hart (NDIAS)
PART III - ARTS AND LITERATURE
9:Dante's Total Eclipses, Alison Cornish (New York University)
10:Eclipsed? The Nineteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology, Roberta J.M. Olson (Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
11:Total Eclipse of the Art: Vision, Occlusion, Representation, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley)
12:When Words Fail: Eclipse, Music, and Sound, Elaine Stratton Hild (Universität Würzburg)
PART IV - ANIMALS, WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT
13:Animal Behaviour and Eclipse, Steven Portugal (Royal Holloway)
14:Weather and the Solar Eclipse: Nature's Meteorological Experiment, Giles Harrison (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)
Conclusion - The Moon and the Sun in the Afternoon, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) and Tom McLeish (University of York)
APPENDIX - The Eclipse Chaser's Toolkit, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)

 
 

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish

Description

Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology?

The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes - into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology.

Carefully prepared for readers from all backgrounds, these voices invite us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions. A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses emerges, itself rising to a model of communal thinking, together, across disciplinary borders.

This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.

About the editors:

Henrike Lange is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Historian of art, architecture, and literature, Lange is best known for her work on Italian medieval and Renaissance art and literature, including her publications on artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, and research on writers such as Augustine, Dante, and Petrarch.

Tom McLeish FRS was Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. Theoretical physicist and "penseur anglais" (Emmanuel Macron), McLeish is best known for his groundbreaking work in soft matter physics and polymers, rheology, history of science, and theology of science, and as a Reader in the Anglican Church. He was awarded the 2018 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship and his scientific-theological legacy includes the Christian leadership in the sciences initiative, ECLAS (Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science). Eclipse & Revelation is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament.

Read More

Table of contents

PART I - COSMOS
1:The Cosmic Clockwork: The How and When of Total Solar Eclipses, Tom McLeish (University of York) and Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
2:The Unveiling of the Corona, Jay Pasachoff (Williams College)
3:Pre-Modern Astronomies of Eclipses in the Near-East and Europe, Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College Oxford)
4:From Science to Story: Testimony of an Eclipse Chaser, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
PART II - HISTORY AND RELIGION
5:Solar Eclipses Across Early Asia, John Steele (Brown University)
6:'The Face of the World Was Wretched, Horrifying, Black, Remarkable: Solar Eclipses in the Middle Ages, Giles Gasper (Durham University)
7:Annus Tenebrosus: Black Monday, Faith, and Political Fervour in Early Modern England, Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
8:Signs and Portents: Reflections on the History of Solar Eclipses, David Bentley Hart (NDIAS)
PART III - ARTS AND LITERATURE
9:Dante's Total Eclipses, Alison Cornish (New York University)
10:Eclipsed? The Nineteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology, Roberta J.M. Olson (Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
11:Total Eclipse of the Art: Vision, Occlusion, Representation, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley)
12:When Words Fail: Eclipse, Music, and Sound, Elaine Stratton Hild (Universität Würzburg)
PART IV - ANIMALS, WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT
13:Animal Behaviour and Eclipse, Steven Portugal (Royal Holloway)
14:Weather and the Solar Eclipse: Nature's Meteorological Experiment, Giles Harrison (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)
Conclusion - The Moon and the Sun in the Afternoon, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) and Tom McLeish (University of York)
APPENDIX - The Eclipse Chaser's Toolkit, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)

 
 

Read More