Table of Contents
Preface – “Cosmos” is for Harmony, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York)
Introduction – Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse: On the Road and in the Archive, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) & Tom McLeish (University of York)
PART I – COSMOS
1:The Cosmic Clockwork: The How and When of Total Solar Eclipses, Tom McLeish (University of York) and Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
2:The Unveiling of the Corona, Jay Pasachoff (Williams College)
3:Pre-Modern Astronomies of Eclipses in the Near-East and Europe, Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College Oxford)
4:From Science to Story: Testimony of an Eclipse Chaser, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
PART II – HISTORY AND RELIGION
5:Solar Eclipses Across Early Asia, John Steele (Brown University)
6:’The Face of the World Was Wretched, Horrifying, Black, Remarkable: Solar Eclipses in the Middle Ages, Giles Gasper (Durham University)
7:Annus Tenebrosus: Black Monday, Faith, and Political Fervour in Early Modern England, Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
8:Signs and Portents: Reflections on the History of Solar Eclipses, David Bentley Hart (NDIAS)
PART III – ARTS AND LITERATURE
9:Dante’s Total Eclipses, Alison Cornish (New York University)
10:Eclipsed? The Nineteenth-Century Quest to Capture Solar Eclipses in Art, Science, and Technology, Roberta J.M. Olson (Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library)
11:Total Eclipse of the Art: Vision, Occlusion, Representation, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley)
12:When Words Fail: Eclipse, Music, and Sound, Elaine Stratton Hild (Universität Würzburg)
PART IV – ANIMALS, WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT
13:Animal Behaviour and Eclipse, Steven Portugal (Royal Holloway)
14:Weather and the Solar Eclipse: Nature’s Meteorological Experiment, Giles Harrison (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)
Conclusion – The Moon and the Sun in the Afternoon, Henrike Christiane Lange (University of California, Berkeley) and Tom McLeish (University of York)
APPENDIX – The Eclipse Chaser’s Toolkit, Mike Frost (British Astronomical Association)
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