Fire in the sky : comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science
Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced a larger number and greater variety of representations of comets and meteors than anywhere else. This beautifully illustrated book examines the link between these works and the achievements of British science in the wake of Newton and Halley.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ©1998
History
xiv, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
9780521630603, 0521630606
38002594
Introduction: Fire in the Sky: Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science
I. Prelude: The Beginning of Telescopic Astronomy and the Background of British Astronomy and Artistic Traditions
II. The Heavens on Fire: The Eighteenth Century
III. The Comet-Crazed Century Opens
IV. The Triumph of Realism
V. Donati's Comet, the Watershed
VI. The Origin of Comet (and Meteor) Photography
VII. The Triumph of the Imagination
VIII. Comets and the New Century
Epilogue: Comets and the New Millennium / Colin T. Pillinger