Investigating art, history, and literature with astronomy : determining time, place, and other hidden details linked to the stars / / Donald W. Olson

• Autore: Olson Donald W.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Disciplina: 520
• Soggetto topico: Astronomy in literature; Astronomy in art
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Methods of Celestial Sleuthing -- 1: Astronomy Software, Learning About Locations, Sunlight and Shadows, and Weather Archives -- Astronomy Software -- Method to Find the Lunar Phase on the Evening of the Boston Tea Party -- Online Astronomical Tables -- Using Tables to Find the Lunar Phase on the Evening of the Boston Tea Party -- Determining Whether Alexander the Great Observed a Partial Lunar Eclipse or a Total Lunar Eclipse in 331 B.C. -- Learning About Locations -- Finding the Location of Monet's Hotel Window in Le Havre -- Finding the Location of Manet's Hotel Window in Boulogne-sur-Mer -- Using Postcards to Study Erosion of the Rocks in Monet's Étretat, Sunset -- Finding Munch's Locations for His Paintings in Åsgårdstrand -- Maps, Postcards, and Georgia O'Keeffe's Location for a Painting in Manhattan -- Sunlight & -- Shadows -- Sunlight and Shadow in the Iconic VJ Day Times Square Kiss Photograph -- Sunlight and Shadows in Ansel Adams' Denali and Wonder Lake -- Sunlight and Shadows in Monet's Paintings on Belle Île -- Sunlight and Shadows in Johannes Vermeer's View of Delft -- Weather Archives -- Checking Yosemite Weather on Possible Dates for Ansel Adams's Moon and Half Dome -- Finding Archived Weather Observations for Cities in the United States -- Finding Archived Daily Weather Maps for the United States -- Meteorological Archives and the Date of Georgia O'Keeffe's New York Street with Moon -- Meteorological Reports in Foreign Newspapers -- Meteorological Diary for England in The Gentleman's Magazine -- Meteorological Observations at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich -- Meteorological Observations for Europe in the Bulletin International -- Wind and Weather in Manet's Moonlight Over the Port of Boulogne -- Wind and Weather in Monet's Impression, Sunrise. ; Worldwide Meteorological Archives at NOAA -- Longfellow, a Cool Evening, and "The Light of Stars" -- References -- 2: Letters, Almanacs, Timetables, and Foreign Languages -- Letters -- Using Letters to Determine the Approximate Date of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night -- Letters and Starry Night: What's in a Name? -- Using Letters to Determine the Approximate Date and Time of Night of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône -- Using Letters to Determine the Approximate Date of Vincent van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night -- Using Letters to Answer the Question - Does the Orange Disk in a Vincent van Gogh Painting Represent the Sun or the Moon? -- Using Letters and Astronomical Software to Determine the Date of Vincent van Gogh's Road with Cypress and Star -- Using Letters to Determine the Date of Vincent van Gogh's White House at Night -- Letters of Claude Monet -- Monet's Letters and the Date in 1883 of a Sunset Painting at Étretat -- Monet's Letters and the Date in 1885 of His Nearly Fatal Accident at Étretat -- Monet's Letters and His Painting Campaign in 1886 on Belle Île -- Letters of Édouard Manet and the Date of Moonlight Over the Port of Boulogne -- Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Almanacs -- Almanacs Related to the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's Ride -- Benjamin Banneker's Almanacs from the 1790s -- Almanacs from 1857 and Lincoln's "Almanac Trial" -- Almanacs and the Eclipses in Shakespeare's King Lear -- Railroad Timetables -- Obtaining Railroad Timetables -- Using Railroad Timetables from 1945 to Confirm the Time of Day for the VJ Day Times Square Kiss Photograph -- Using Railroad Timetables from 1843 to Identify the Event That Inspired a Painting by J. M. W. Turner -- Using Railroad Timetables to Determine the Time of Vincent van Gogh's Observation of an Evening Star. ; Using Railroad Timetables from 1916 to Identify the Trains Depicted by Georgia O'Keeffe in Her Night Scenes from Canyon, Texas -- Foreign Language Translation -- Translating Claude Monet's Letters from Belle Île -- Translation of Gegenschein Observing Reports from Europe -- Translations Related to Mont Saint-Michel and the Hundred Years' War -- References -- 3: Research Trips, Method of Corresponding Days, Timekeeping -- Research Trips -- Visit to the Site of an Ansel Adams Moonrise Photograph -- Visit to the Site of a Vermeer Townscape -- Method of Corresponding Days -- The "Autumn Moon Encore" and the Ansel Adams Photograph Autumn Moon -- Julian Caesar's Invasion of Britain and Corresponding Days in August 2007 -- Monet's Belle Île Campaign and Corresponding Days in September 2019 -- Timekeeping -- Julian and Gregorian Calendars -- Calendars, Eclipses in 1605, and Shakespeare's King Lear -- Daylight Saving Time, Time Zones, and Local Mean Time -- Finding Local Mean Time in Boston -- Finding Local Mean Time in Delft, Netherlands -- Finding Local Mean Time in Étretat, Normandy -- Deducing Time Zones from Newspapers -- Timekeeping in World War II -- Conclusion: Timekeeping -- References -- Part II: Examples of Astronomy in Art -- 4: Vermeer and Monet: Masters of Sunlight and Shadows, and the Moon in J. M. W. Turner's First Oil Paintings -- Dating Vermeer's View of Delft -- View of Delft -- Season and Time of Day? -- Nieuwe Kerk's Octagon -- Nieuwe Kerk "Two Times Too Wide"? -- Research Trip to the Netherlands -- Vermeer's Viewpoint -- Clock in View of Delft -- Vermeer's Empty Bell Tower -- September Sun -- Conclusions: Vermeer's View of Delft -- Modern Visits to Delft -- Dating Monet's Paintings on Belle Île -- Monet's Belle Île Painting Campaign in 1886 -- Port Coton Painting -- Research Trip to Port Coton in 2016 -- Monet, Tides, and Weather. ; Results for the Port Coton Painting -- Port Domois Painting -- Tides, Shadows, and AABI in September 2017 -- Research Trip to Port Domois in September 2019 -- Results for the Port Domois Painting -- Monet's Grotto Event on September 25, 1886 -- Art Historians and the Grotto -- Grotto of the Apothecary? -- Conclusions: Monet on Belle Île -- Modern Visits to Belle Île -- Dating J. M. W. Turner's First Oil Paintings -- Turner's First Exhibited Oil Paintings -- Isle of Wight Painting Campaign: June or August-September 1795? -- Rocks in the Painting: The Needles or Freshwater Bay? -- The Rising Full Moon -- Conclusion: Turner and the Moon -- References -- 5: Georgia O'Keeffe's Night Skies, Kawase Hasui and Nocturnal Scenes in Japan -- Georgia O'Keeffe: New York Street with Moon -- Bishop's Crook Lamppost -- New York Street with Moon Location: 47th Street? -- Churches of Manhattan -- Church of the Holy Family on 47th Street: Ruled Out -- St. Boniface's Roman Catholic Church on 47th Street: Ruled Out -- New York Street with Moon Location: 48th Street -- Svenska Kyrkan (Swedish Seamen's Church) on 48th Street: Ruled Out -- Collegiate Church of Saint Nicholas on 48th Street: Perfect Match -- Location: 48th Street -- Manhattanhenge -- Dating New York Street with Moon -- November 1924 Full Moon Period: Ruled Out -- December 1924 Full Moon Period: Ruled Out -- January 9, 1925, Full Moon: Perfect Match -- February 1925 Full Moon Period: Ruled Out -- Conclusion: New York Street with Moon -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Evening Star -- Walks Near Sunset -- Letters in March 1917 -- Venus as Evening Star? -- Astronomical Calculations: Venus as Morning Star -- Jupiter as Evening Star -- Conclusions: Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening Star Series -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Train Coming In, Canyon, Texas -- Thanksgiving 1916: Early Morning Train -- Identifying the Train Arriving Near Sunrise. ; The Last Two Stars in the Morning Sky -- February 1917: "early morning train - Sunrise" -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Full Moon and a Star -- Conclusions: Georgia O'Keeffe's Night Skies -- Kawase Hasui and Nocturnal Scenes in Japan -- Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto -- Two Planets in the Western Sky -- Moon Shadows -- The Artist's Methods -- Conclusion: Kawase Hasui and Planets Over Japan -- References -- Part III: Examples of Astronomy in History -- 6: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great, and King John and the Loss of the Crown Jewels -- Alexander the Great and an Eclipse -- Eclipse Before the Battle of Gaugamela -- Arrian on the Eclipse -- Quintus Curtius on the Eclipse -- Plutarch on the Eclipse -- Partial Lunar Eclipse? -- Astronomical Calculations: Total Lunar Eclipse of September 20, 331 B.C. -- Total Lunar Eclipse -- Conclusions: Eclipse of Alexander -- Moon and Tides During Alexander's Campaign in India -- Heliacal Rise of the Dog Star -- Tidal Event on the Indus River -- Tidal Bore -- Lunar Phases and the Tidal Bore -- Astronomical Calculations -- The Pleiades and the Departures from India -- Conclusions: Alexander the Great and Astronomy -- King John, the Loss of the Crown Jewels, and the Moon -- King John and the Loss of the Crown Jewels -- The Tale Recounted in the 19th Century -- The Tale Recounted in the Present Day -- The Story According to Matthew Paris -- The Account in William Camden's Britannia -- Allusions by Shakespeare -- Tidal Bores -- A Historically Significant Perigean Spring Tide -- Tidal Bore on a Falling Tide? -- Tidal Bore on a Rising Tide: Modern Example -- Tide Calculations for October 12, 1216 -- Conclusion: King John and the Loss of the Crown Jewels -- References -- 7: Mont Saint-Michel in the Hundred Years' War, and the Discovery of the Gegenschein -- Mont Saint-Michel and the Tides of War. ; The Michelettes and the Hundred Years' War.
• Titolo autorizzato: Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy
• ISBN: 9783030955540; 9783030955533
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466837803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Springer Praxis Bks.