Selene's Two Faces

From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-29886-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Nuncius Series

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 the study of the universe. Against this background, Selene’s Two Faces sets out to look at the scientific purpose, aesthetic expression, and influence of early lunar drawings, maps and photographs, including spacecraft imaging. In its approach, Selene’s Two Faces is intermedial, intercultural and interdisciplinary. It brings together not only various media (photography, maps, engravings, lithographs, globes, texts), and cultures (from Europe, America and Asia), but also theoretical perspectives.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Raposo, Pedro M. P.

Nakamura, Tsuko

Bigg, Charlotte

Nasim, Omar W.

Geffert, Michael

Groote, Detlef

Ré, Pedro

Pérez González, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Authors

List of Illustrations


Introduction: On the Visible, the Invisible, Presences and Absences of Lunar Portraiture

Carmen Pérez González

1. One World is Not Enough: Remarks on the History of Selenography

Pedro Raposo

2. Mapping Time Rather Than Mapping Space: The Case of Persian Astronomy and the Moon during the Naseri Period (1848-1896)

Carmen Pérez González

3. Japanese Lunar Drawings, Maps and Photographs before the 1870s

Tsuko Nakamura


4. Of Blurs, Maps and Portraits: photography and the Moon

Charlotte Bigg

5. James Nasmyth on the Moon; Or on Becoming a Lunar Being, Without the Lunacy

Omar W. Nasim

6. Karl Friedrich Küstners’ Observations of the Moon in Bonn

Michael Geffert


7. The Digital Sky of Hamburg Observatory: How to bring astro-photographic plates from the 20th into the 21st century

Detlef Groote

8. From astronomer-photographers to astronaut-photographers: Close-up detailed observations performed by spacecraft and manned exploration of the Moon

Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González

Chronology

Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carmen Pérez González, Ph.D. (2010), Leiden University, is lecturer-researcher at Bergische Universität Wuppertal (IZWT). She has published a book, Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers (Leiden University Press, 2012), an exhibition catalogue, and many articles.