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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Daugherty, Tracy, author.     Subjects     Evershed, Mary Acworth, 1867-1949.     Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence.     Women astronomers -- England -- Biography.     Astronomers -- England -- Biography.     Amateur astronomy -- England -- History.     Astronomy -- England -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Daugherty, Tracy, author.       by title:      Dante and the early ...         MARC Display

Dante and the early astronomer : science, adventure, and a Victorian woman who opened the heavens / Tracy Daugherty. by Daugherty, Tracy, author. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] Subjects Evershed, Mary Acworth, 1867-1949.   Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence.   Women astronomers -- England -- Biography.   Astronomers -- England -- Biography.   Amateur astronomy -- England -- History.   Astronomy -- England -- History. ISBN:  9780300239898 (hardback) : 0300239890 Description:  xvi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents:  Preface: The dawn-light of Ravenna -- On the hilltop -- To the lighthouse -- The city of stars -- Poetry and sunspots -- "Black star-lore" -- Physical astronomy -- Romantics -- Prisms -- The notebook of the sun -- The gift of the forest -- The scarcity of wasps in Kashmir -- Harmonic structures -- "Dante and the early astronomers" -- Sun-chasers -- Exploding the sun -- Saturnalia -- Infinity and the fly -- Wallal -- Departure -- Who's who in the moon -- The Maunder minimum -- The remade universe -- Return to origins -- Northern lights -- Epilogue: Kodai dusk. Requests:  0 Summary:  In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo's time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and recast in Einstein's theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 520.92 Evershed Da Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 520.92 Evershed Da Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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