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Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth : Using Astronomy to Solve More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature / by Donald W. Olson.

Olson, Donald W., author.
2018
QB1-991
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Title
Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth : Using Astronomy to Solve More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature / by Donald W. Olson.
Author
Olson, Donald W., author.
ISBN
9783319703206
331970320X
9783319703190
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70320-6
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-70320-6 doi
Call Number
QB1-991
Dewey Decimal Classification
520
Summary
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, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master "celestial sleuth" as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland, battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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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.

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