Eclipse and Revelation

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.

• Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York): Preface - "Cosmos" is for HarmonyHenrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York): Introduction - Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse: On the Road and in the ArchivePART I - COSMOS1: Tom McLeish (University of York) and Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association): The Cosmic Clockwork: The How and When of Total Solar Eclipses2: Jay Pasachoff (Williams College): The Unveiling of the Corona3: Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College Oxford): Pre-Modern Astronomies of Eclipses in the Near-East and Europe4: Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association): From Science to Story: Testimony of an Eclipse ChaserPART II - HISTORY AND RELIGION5: John Steele (Brown University): Solar Eclipses Across Early Asia6: Giles Gasper (Durham University): 'The Face of the World Was Wretched, Horrifying, Black, Remarkable: Solar Eclipses in the Middle Ages7: Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln): Annus Tenebrosus: Black Monday, Faith, and Political Fervour in Early Modern England8: David Bentley Hart (NDIAS): Signs and Portents: Reflections on the History of Solar EclipsesPART III - ARTS AND LITERATURE9: Alison Cornish (New York University): Dante's Total Eclipses10: Roberta J.M. Olson (Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library): Eclipsed? The Nineteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology11: Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley): Total Eclipse of the Art: Vision, Occlusion, Representation12: Elaine Stratton Hild (Universität Würzburg): When Words Fail: Eclipse, Music, and SoundPART IV - ANIMALS, WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT13: Steven Portugal (Royal Holloway): Animal Behaviour and Eclipse14: Giles Harrison (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading): Weather and the Solar Eclipse: Nature's Meteorological ExperimentHenrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) and Tom McLeish (University of York): Conclusion - The Moon and the Sun in the AfternoonMike Frost (British Astronomical Association): APPENDIX - The Eclipse Chaser's Toolkit

Wonderful and wonder-full! This splendidly illustrated book explores total solar eclipses and their effect on us through art, music and words.