Moon : a brief history / Bernd Brunner.
2010
QB581 .B78 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Moon : a brief history / Bernd Brunner.
Author
Brunner, Bernd, 1964-
ISBN
9780300152128 (alkaline paper)
0300152124 (alkaline paper)
0300152124 (alkaline paper)
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xii, 290 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
QB581 .B78 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.3
Summary
Using werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop in this new book, the author weaves variegated information into a glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neighbor, whose mere presence inspires us to wonder what might be out there. Going beyond the discoveries of contemporary science, he presents a cultural assessment of our complex relationship with Earth's lifeless, rocky satellite. As well as offering an engaging perspective on such age old questions as "What would Earth be like without the moon?" he surveys the moon's mythical and religious significance and provokes existential soul searching through a lunar lens, inquiring, "Forty years ago, the first man put his footprint on the moon. Will we continue to use it as the screen onto which we cast our hopes and fears?" Drawing on materials from different cultures and epochs, he walks readers down a moonlit path illuminated by more than seventy-five vintage photographs and illustrations. From scientific discussions of the moon's origins and its chronobiological effects on the mating and feeding habits of animals to an illuminating interpretation of Bishop Francis Godwin's 1638 novel The Man in the Moone, his interdisciplinary explorations recast a familiar object in an original light.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Gazing at the moon
Moon of the mind
Charting the moonscape
Pale sun of the night
Encounters of a lunar kind
Lunar passion in Paris
Accounts of genesis
A riddled surface
Lunar choreography
Esoteric practices
Spurious correspondences
Visions of the moon
Before and after Apollo.
Moon of the mind
Charting the moonscape
Pale sun of the night
Encounters of a lunar kind
Lunar passion in Paris
Accounts of genesis
A riddled surface
Lunar choreography
Esoteric practices
Spurious correspondences
Visions of the moon
Before and after Apollo.