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Part I Astronomy in Art -- Van Gogh's Lost Night Sky -- Van Gogh's Moonrise (Wheat Stacks) -- Van Gogh's Starry Nights -- Edvard Munch and the Blood-Red Sky of The Scream -- Edvard Munch's Girls on the Pier -- Edvard Munch's Starry Nights -- Monet in London -- Monet's Impression, Sunrise -- The Moonrise Photographs of Ansel Adams -- Canaletto's Night Festival Paintings of Venice -- The Night Skies of J.M.W. Turner -- Part II Astronomy in History -- The Moon and the Marathon -- Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britiain -- The Boston Tea Party -- Paul Revere's Midnight Ride -- Lincoln and the Almanac Trial -- Lincoln and the Leonids -- Stonewall Jackson's Fatal Full Moon -- John Muir and Moonbows -- World War II -- Pearl Harbor and the Waning Moon -- World War II: The Tide at Tarawa -- World War II: D-Day in Normandy -- World War II: I'll Met by Moonligh -- The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis -- What's a Blue Moon -- Did the Moon Sink the Titanic? -- Part III Astronomy in Literature -- Chaucer -- Moon, Tides, and The Franklin's Tale -- Chaucer -- Lunar Motion in The Merchant's Tale -- Identifying a Meteor in James Joyce's Ulysses -- William Blake's The Tiger -- False Dawn in the Rubaiyat
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- Author
- Olson, Donald W.
- Publisher
- Springer New York : Imprint : Springer
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461484035
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Astronomy, Physics
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (13 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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