Still As Bright
eBook - ePub

Still As Bright

An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Still As Bright

An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow

About this book

An immersive exploration of the nightly presence that has captured our imagination for the entirety of human history. "When the Moon rises between buildings or over trees, it's not just a beautiful light: It's an archive of human longing, fear and adventure. The Moon is more than a rock. It's a story." In the luminously told Still s Bright, the story of the Moon traverses time and space, rendering a range of human experiences—from the beliefs of ancient cultures to the science of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, from the obsessions of colorful 19th century "selenographers" to the astronauts of Apollo and, now, Artemis. Still As Bright also traces Cokinos's own lunar pilgrimage. With his backyard telescope, he explores the surface of the Moon, while rooted in places both domestic and wild, and this award-winning poet and writer rediscovers feelings of solace, love and wonder in the midst of loss and change.Simultaneously steeped in rigorous cultural and scientific history, as well as memoir, Still As Bright is a thoughtful, deeply moving, evergreen natural history. It takes readers on a lyrical journey that spans the human understanding of our closest celestial neighbor, whose multi-faceted appeal has worked on witches, scientists, poets, engineers and even billionaires. Still As Bright is a must-read for anyone who has ever looked up into the night sky in awe and wonder. Readers will never look at the Moon the same way again.

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Information

Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781639365708
Edition
0
Subtopic
Science History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One: The Invention of Time
  7. Chapter Two: “There Be Wonderfull Vertues of Places…”
  8. Chapter Three: Mirror
  9. Chapter Four: Collimation
  10. Chapter Five: By Any Other Name
  11. Chapter Six: The Gardens of Eratosthenes
  12. Chapter Seven: “A Corpse in Night’s Highway…”
  13. Chapter Eight: Wide-Shining
  14. Chapter Nine: Transient
  15. Chapter Ten: A Meaning
  16. Chapter Eleven: Essentially Gray
  17. Chapter Twelve: Grandeur
  18. Chapter Thirteen: The Empty House
  19. Photographs
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. About the Author
  22. A Bibliographic Note
  23. Index
  24. Illustration Credits
  25. Copyright