Celestial Sleuth: Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature - Softcover

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Part I Astronomy in Art.- Van Gogh's Lost Night Sky.- Van Gogh's "Moonrise (Wheat Stacks).- Van Gogh's Starry Nights.- Edvard Munch and the Blood-Red Sky of "The Scream".- Edvard Munch's "Girls on the Pier".- Edvard Munch's Starry Nights.- Monet in London.- Monet's "Impression, Sunrise".- The Moonrise Photographs of Ansel Adams.- Canaletto's Night Festival Paintings of Venice.- The Night Skies of J. M. W. Turner.- Part II Astronomy in History.- The Moon and the Marathon.- Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britiain.- The Boston Tea Party.- Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.- Lincoln and the Almanac Trial.- Lincoln and the Leonids.- Stonewall Jackson's Fatal Full Moon.- John Muir and Moonbows.- World War II - Pearl Harbor and the Waning Moon.- World War II: The Tide at Tarawa.- World War II: D-Day in Normandy.- World War II: "I'll Met by Moonligh" - The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis.- What's a Blue Moon.- Did the Moon Sink the Titanic?.- Part III Astronomy in Literature.- Chaucer - Moon, Tides, and "The Franklin's Tale".- Chaucer - Lunar Motion in "The Merchant's Tale".- Identifying a Meteor in James Joyce's "Ulysses".- William Blake's "The Tiger".- False Dawn in the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".

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