Investigating art, history, and literature with astronomy : determining time, place, and other hidden details linked to the stars / Donald W. Olson.
Olson, Donald W., author.
2022
QB44.2
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Title Investigating art, history, and literature with astronomy : determining time, place, and other hidden details linked to the stars / Donald W. Olson.
Author Olson, Donald W., author.
ISBN 9783030955540 (electronic bk.)
3030955540 (electronic bk.)
9783030955533 (print)
3030955532
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95554-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-95554-0 doi
Call Number QB44.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 520
Summary How can shadows determine the date and time of a painting by Johannes Vermeer? How did the Moon and tides cause the loss of King John's crown jewels? In his newest book, Professor Olson, author of Celestial Sleuth and Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth, explores how astronomical clues can uncover fascinating new details about art, history, and literature. He begins with an accessible introduction to amateur "celestial sleuthing," showing how to use your astronomical knowledge, software, archives, vintage maps, historical letters and diaries, military records, and other resources to investigate the past. Follow along as Professor Olson then explores twenty real-world cases where astronomy has helped answer unresolved questions or correct longstanding interpretations about an event. Examples involve artists such as Vermeer, Monet, and O'Keeffe; the historical exploits of Alexander the Great, the desert travels of the Death Valley '49ers, and a meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Marrakech; and literary works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. Packed with dozens of full-color illustrations, this book will enrich your knowledge of the past and equip you with all the tools you'll need to become a celestial sleuth yourself.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 23, 2022).
Series Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030955533
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Chapter 1. Astronomy Software, Learning About Locations, Sunlight and Shadows, and Weather Archives
Chapter 2. Letters, Almanacs, Timetables, and Foreign Languages
Chapter 3. Research Trips, Method of Corresponding Days, and Timekeeping
Chapter 4. Vermeer and Monet: Masters of Sunlight and Shadows, and the Moon in J. M. W. Turner's First Oil Paintings
Chapter 5. Georgia O'Keeffe's Night Skies, and Kawase Hasui's Nocturnal Scenes in Japan
Chapter 6. The Campaigns of Alexander the Great, and King John and the Loss of the Crown Jewels
Chapter 7. Mont Saint-Michel in the Hundred Years War, and the Discovery of the Gegenschein
Chapter 8. The Moon and the Death Valley '49ers, Roosevelt and Churchill at Marrakech, and World War II and the Moon
Chapter 9. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Longfellow
Chapter 10. Death Valley, Dante's View, and Mount Whitney.

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