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Author:

Montgomery, Scott L.

Title:

The moon & the western imagination / Scott L. Montgomery.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xiii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Moon.
Moon--In art.
Moon--In literature.
Moon.--Maps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

Contents:

Lunar cycle. How the Moon began: ideas of lunar reality in antiquity -- Epic journeys and flights of fancy: images of the Moon in Plutarch and Lucian -- Moon and medieval science: text and images before the twelfth century -- Later middle ages: from symbolism to naturalism -- First drawings of the lunar surface -- British contribution: William Gilbert and Thomas Harriot -- Galileo: maps without names -- Return to the text: literary explorations of lunar geography -- Efforts from France and Belgium: Peiresc-Gassendi and Van Langren -- Johannes Hevelius: a Moon of higher origins -- Riccioli: the Moon as a conflictual community -- Lunar legacy: names and the planets -- Lunar cycle.

ISBN:

9780816519897 (paper : alk. paper)
0816519897 (paper : alk. paper)
9780816517114 (cloth : alk. paper)
0816517118 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40738870
(OCoLC)43894870

LCCN:

99006090

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)