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Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

Editat de Henrike Lange, Tom McLeish
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2024

În contextul programelor de studii actuale care pun accent pe transdisciplinaritate, Eclipse and Revelation se situează la intersecția dintre astrofizică, istoria culturii și artele vizuale. Lucrarea, editată de Henrike Lange și Tom McLeish, nu este doar un tratat despre un fenomen astronomic, ci rezultatul unui proiect de cercetare de șapte ani care încearcă să vindece fractura dintre științele exacte și disciplinele umaniste. Găsim în această carte o documentare metodică a eclipselor totale de soare, privite nu doar prin lentila telescopului, ci și prin cea a arhivei istorice sau a observației biologice.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care volumul integrează 146 de ilustrații color, de la diagrame tehnice la reprezentări artistice, pentru a explica modul în care percepția umană s-a schimbat de-a lungul secolelor. Această abordare reprezintă o alternativă la Total Eclipses of the Sun – Expanded Edition pentru cursurile de istoria științei sau astrofizică observațională, cu avantajul unei perspective mult mai largi asupra impactului cultural și teologic al fenomenului. Dacă lucrările clasice precum Totality se concentrează pe ghidarea observatorului și pe mecanica evenimentului, Eclipse and Revelation propune un model de gândire comună, trecând dincolo de limitele departamentale ale universității.

Reținem că acest volum are o valoare simbolică deosebită, fiind testamentul academic al editorului Tom McLeish și incluzând ultimul text scris de astrofizicianul Jay M. Pasachoff despre coroana solară. Ritmul lecturii este susținut de diversitatea vocilor incluse, de la biologi care studiază comportamentul animal în timpul totalității, până la istorici de artă care analizează reprezentările iconografice ale întunericului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192857996
ISBN-10: 0192857991
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 146 colour line drawings and halftones
Dimensiuni: 167 x 242 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cititorii care doresc să înțeleagă eclipsele dincolo de datele matematice. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care un eveniment cosmic a modelat literatura, arta și teologia. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru studenții de la discipline umaniste și științifice deopotrivă, oferind un model rar de cercetare interdisciplinară autentică, susținut de ilustrații excepționale și contribuții ale unor experți de renume mondial.


Despre autor

Tom McLeish a fost un fizician britanic renumit, profesor la Universitatea din York, cunoscut pentru munca sa în domeniul materiei moi și pentru promovarea dialogului dintre știință și religie. Henrike Lange este specialistă în istoria artei și arhitectură la UC Berkeley, concentrându-se pe cultura vizuală europeană. Împreună cu Jay M. Pasachoff, unul dintre cei mai prolifici observatori de eclipse din istorie, aceștia au creat o lucrare de referință care îmbină rigoarea astrofizicii cu profunzimea analizei istorice, reflectând cariere dedicate explorării frontierelor cunoașterii.


Descriere

Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses? Second, how can we heal the historical divide separating the natural sciences from the humanities, arts, history, and theology? The result of this interdisciplinary investigation into eclipses is an exciting look behind the scenes - into labs, archives, and museums, as well as around fieldwork in astronomy, meteorology, animal behaviour, and ecophysiology.Carefully prepared for readers from all backgrounds, these voices invite us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions. A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses emerges, itself rising to a model of communal thinking, together, across disciplinary borders. This book is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament. Dedicated to him and to astrophysicist Jay M. Pasachoff (contributing author of a chapter about the solar corona, also Pasachoff's final piece of writing), the volume is a friendly companion to the chase of knowledge, encouraging its readers to embark upon their own interdisciplinary journey of discovery.

Recenzii

Wonderful and wonder-full! This splendidly illustrated book explores total solar eclipses and their effect on us through art, music and words.
A courtside seat to watch scientists, scholars, artists, and musicians toss ideas right (awesome!) and wrong (interesting!) back and forth over centuries of wonder. Nothing as real and completely out of human control or influence as the total solar eclipse has been so endlessly fascinating, provocative, and compelling; get your ticket here.
Superb! This book touched my soul! Fabulous stuff and the first of its kind! So rich in thought with delectable prose on the history, art and science of the ages that surround eclipses. Henrike Lange and Tom McLeish have done something extraordinary: From one momentary cosmic event they virtuously generated lasting inspiration to chase knowledge and wisdom... Even the most experienced eclipse chasers will feel enriched and further enlightened by an eclipse after delving into this book... A true tome on the total solar eclipse.
I enjoyed the book... I emerged with my over 30 eclipse experiences freshly anchored in mysticism, history, and legend while clothed in new garments of art, music and literature. For both the scientist and the artist, Eclipse and Revelation gives view of the "other side"... The work becomes a tapestry that stitches history, passion, nature, weather, art, and music with a thread of mysticism and wonder. This ambitious volume welds so many dissimilar views of a shared experience: One chapter explains the physics behind the glow of the corona; another, Dante's eclipse muse. Ancient and medieval history... blend with the magnificence of art and poetry; animal and atmosphere respond in muted sympathy, all bound by the glory of the total eclipse.
A total solar eclipse is a spectacle without equal. Henrike Christiane Lange and Tom McLeish study the human and cultural impact of totality. Every human culture has a mythology about solar eclipses. These stories should be told and this book is an excellent survey of many cultures across the continents and throughout the centuries. I especially enjoyed the excerpts from Tom McLeish's travel diary from August 2017 which capture the thrill of the chase and the allure of the corona in the co-authored Introduction. Chapter 2 by my late friend Jay Pasachoff on the solar corona is a masterclass in science communication. I highly recommend Eclipse & Revelation to anyone interested in solar eclipses and their many interactions with humanity.
Genius! Truly marvelous and relevant work, beautifully illustrated and delivered: an utterly brilliant new take on interdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, humanities, and sciences exploring a gripping natural phenomenon across human history. Unlike any other, this book includes fascinating perspectives and early science from ancient Asia, Assyria, Babylonia, India, China, Greece and Rome, the scientific revolution to the present... - all topped off with the latest meteorological methods and a conclusion that creates a poetic awareness of the entire cosmos... Lange and McLeish deliver a passionate defence of the liberal arts and a delightful account of the perpetual curiosity, excitement, joy, and enduring love of wisdom at the core of the scientific and scholarly life.
The book ends with some practical information that every reader will be craving by this point: eye protection tips and, most importantly, details of where the next eclipses can be observed; for the desire to experience totality must surely be the universal result of reading this book, even affecting this former eclipse heathen.
This book boasts of careful editing and meticulous preparation in presenting the viewpoints of two dozen different disciplines. All well and good. The effort is very laudable. It gives itself a pat on the back for managing to pull through by sheer determination despite suffering the hardship that is COVID-19.
Eclipse and Revelation is a collection of essays by an array of distinguished professionals from a variety of disciplines, ranging through history, religion, mathematics (particularly geometry), physics, animal behaviour, and the arts. The enthusiasm of Lange and McLeish, who have brought these authorities together, leaps off the page.
Eclipse and Revelation would make a perfect gift for any eclipse-chaser, especially one with an interest in astronomical history, who wants to be transported back to an era when such events were not only awe-inspiring, but also terrifying, mysterious and magical. I highly recommend it!

Notă biografică

Henrike Lange is Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Historian of art, architecture, and literature, Lange is best known for her work on Italian medieval and Renaissance art and literature, including her publications on artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, and research on writers such as Augustine, Dante, and Petrarch.Tom McLeish FRS was Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy at the University of York. Theoretical physicist and "penseur anglais" (Emmanuel Macron), McLeish is best known for his groundbreaking work in soft matter physics and polymers, rheology, history of science, and theology of science, and as a Reader in the Anglican Church. He was awarded the 2018 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship and his scientific-theological legacy includes the Christian leadership in the sciences initiative, ECLAS (Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science). Eclipse & Revelation is Tom McLeish's final project and scholarly testament.