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Imagined Sky

Cultural Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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The sky forms fifty percent of our visual world and as such has a voice across cultures. This sky-voice is informed by human images, dreams, and aspirations and thus is complex and contains great diversity. The inherent nature of this sky-voice is transmitted from one generation to another through text, image, oral tradition, physical mapping, and painted description. This volume, written by some of the most noted scholars in their fields, acknowledges the presence of such a voice, from the sky's movement mirrored in the archoeastronomy of British prehistory, the apocalyptic myths of comets and meteors, sky cartography reflected in European globes and frescoes, Australian aboriginal sky myths, the issue of disappearing dark skies, contemporary reflections on the sky, and the recognition that sky imagery has persisted in similar forms since its potential roots in the Palaeolithic period. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-15
Mått155 x 233 x 16 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives
Antal sidor286
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781791684

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1. Introduction Darrelyn Gunzburg (University of Bristol, UK and University of Wales Trinity Saint David) 2. 'The Strange History of British Archaeoastronomy' Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol, UK) 3. 'Comets And Meteors: The Ignored Explanations For Myths And Apocalypse' Patrick McCafferty (Universitat Leipzig / Philologische Fakultat, Leipzig) 4. 'Imagery and Narrative in an Ancient Horoscope: P.Lond. 130 (Greek Horoscopes No. 81)' Roger Beck (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada) 5. 'Reflections on the Farnese Atlas: exploring the scientific, literary and pictorial antecedents of the constellations on a Graeco-Roman globe' Kristen Lippincott (The Exhibitions Team, UK) 6. 'Giotto's sky: the fresco paintings of the first floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy' Darrelyn Gunzburg (University of Bristol, UK and University of Wales Trinity Saint David) 7. 'Astrology as Sociology: The 'Children of Planets', 1400-1600' Geoffrey Shamos (Redline, Denver, CO, USA) 8. 'Mapping the Heavens: The Ceiling of the Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace' Emily Urban (Independent scholar) 9. 'Cosmos, culture and landscape: Documenting, learning and sharing Australian Aboriginal astronomical knowledge in contemporary society' John Goldsmith (Curtin University and The University of Western Australia/ The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) 10. 'At Night's End' Tyler Nordgren (University of Redlands, USA) 11. 'Reach For The Stars! - Light, Vision And The Atmosphere' Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK) 12. 'Images in the Heavens: a cultural landscape' Bernadette Brady (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)