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Selene's Two Faces: From the Daguerreotype to Spacecraft Imaging, A History of the Visualization of the Moon, 1840-2015.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nuncius Series 3.
- Nuncius series. Studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; Volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy.
- Moon.
- Moon--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.
- Summary:
- If any scientific object has over the course of human history aroused the fascination of both scientists and artists worldwide, it is beyond doubt the moon. The moon is also by far the most interesting celestial body when it comes to reflecting on the dualistic nature of photography as applied to the study of the universe. Against this background, Selene’s Two Faces sets out to look at the scientific purpose, aesthetic expression, and influence of early lunar drawings, maps and photographs, including spacecraft imaging. In its approach, Selene’s Two Faces is intermedial, intercultural and interdisciplinary. It brings together not only various media (photography, maps, engravings, lithographs, globes, texts), and cultures (from Europe, America and Asia), but also theoretical perspectives.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: On the Visible, the Invisible, Presences and Absences in Lunar Portraiture / Carmen Pérez González
- 1 One World is not Enough / Pedro M.P. Raposo
- 2 Mapping Time Rather than Mapping Space / Carmen Pérez González
- 3 Japanese Lunar Drawings, Maps and Photographs before the 1870s / Tsuko Nakamura
- 4 Of Blurs, Maps and Portraits / Charlotte Bigg
- 5 James Nasmyth on the Moon / Omar W. Nasim
- 6 Karl Friedrich Küstner’s Moon Photographic Plates at Bonn Observatory / Michael Geffert
- 7 The Digital Sky of Hamburg Observatory / Detlef Groote
- 8 From Astronomer-photographers to Astronaut-photographers / Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González
- Chronology. History of Moon-photography: Timeline / Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González
- Bibliography / Carmen Pérez González
- Index / Carmen Pérez González.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-29887-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004298873 DOI
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