Selene's Two Faces: From the Daguerreotype to Spacecraft Imaging, : A History of the Visualization of the Moon, 1840-2015.
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 th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nuncius Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 pages). |
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Table of 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.