Selene's Two Faces

Carmen Pérez González, Ph.D. (2010), Leiden University, is lecturer-researcher at Bergische Universität Wuppertal (IZWT). She has published a book, Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers (Leiden University Press, 2012), an exhibition catalogue, and many articles.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: On the Visible, the Invisible, Presences and Absences in Lunar PortraitureCarmen Pérez González1 One World is not Enough: Remarks on the History of SelenographyPedro M.P. Raposo2 Mapping Time Rather than Mapping Space: The Moon in Persian Astronomy during the Naseri Period (1848-1896)Carmen Pérez González3 Japanese Lunar Drawings, Maps and Photographs before the 1870sTsuko Nakamura4 Of Blurs, Maps and Portraits: Photography and the MoonCharlotte Bigg5 James Nasmyth on the Moon: Or on Becoming a Lunar Being, without the LunacyOmar W. Nasim6 Karl Friedrich Küstner’s Moon Photographic Plates at Bonn ObservatoryMichael Geffert7 The Digital Sky of Hamburg Observatory: Bringing Astro-photographic Plates from the 20th into the 21st CenturyDetlef Groote8 From Astronomer-photographers to Astronaut-photographers: Close-up Detailed Observations Performed by Spacecraft and Manned Exploration of the MoonPedro Ré and Carmen Pérez GonzálezChronologyPedro Ré and Carmen Pérez GonzálezIndex

"Setting aside the specific subject of the Moon and its pictures, González’s collection provides an excellent example of how astronomical imaging can overstep the boundaries of traditionally understood history of science."Jarosław Włodarczyk, Institute for the History of Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Journal for the History of Astronomy 50(4): 493-495