Book ID: CBB145220967

Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens (2019)

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Daugherty, Tracy (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 232 pp.
Language: English

Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed   In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867–1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Was Dante’s astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky?   As the twentieth century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars. From the perspective of one remarkable amateur astronomer, readers will see how ideas developed during Galileo’s time evolved or were discarded in Newtonian conceptions of the cosmos and then recast in Einstein’s theories. The result is a book about the history of science but also a poetic meditation on literature, science, and the evolution of ideas.

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Authors & Contributors
Laetitia Rimpau
Lucio Marcato
Toffalori, Carlo
Bischi, Gian Italo
Chakravarty, Sunder
Annamaria Dallaporta
Concepts
Cosmology
Astronomy
Science and literature
Science and religion
Philosophy
Stars; stellar astronomy
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
Early modern
20th century
16th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Europe
India
England
United States
Institutions
British Astronomical Association
American Association of Variable Star Observers
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