Images in Practice

 

ASTRONOMY

astronomy

general

Norriss S.Hetherington, Science and Objectivity, Episodes in the History of Astronomy, Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1988. Images of Science. Believing is Seeing. Planetary Fantasies: Yranus. Planetary Fantasies:Nepture. Planetary Fantasies: Mars. Sirius B and the Gravitational Redshift. A General Solar Magnetic Field. The Purported Rotation of Spiral nebulae. Objectivity Questioned.

influence

on

the

arts

Eileen Reeves, PAINTING THE HEAVENS, Art and Science in the Age of Galileo, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1997. The Artist and the Astronomer. 1599 - 1602: First Reflections on the Moon's Secondary Light. 1604 - 1605~: Neostoicism and the New Star. 1605 - 1607 Mutual Illumination. 1610 - 1612 In the Shadow of the Moon. 1614 - 1621 The Buon Pintor of Seville.