Culture and Cosmos

Culture and Cosmos is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the history of astrology and cultural astronomy published by the Sophia Centre Press in partnership with the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, Institute of Education and Humanities, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David

We are currently seeking submissions for future volumes of Culture and Cosmos.

Volume 16 (1 & 2)

Volume 16 (1 & 2) Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2012

This special issue contains forty papers from the Seventh Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAPVII) held at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, 24-29 October 2010.


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Contributors' Biographies
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Nicholas Campion

Editorial: The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
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Chris Impey

The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
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Ulisses Barres de Almeida

What are these sparks of infinite clarity? And what am I? So I pry
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Bath and the Herschels

Michael Hoskin

William Herschel's Wonderful Decade, 1781-1790
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Francis Ring

The Bath Philosophical Society and its influence on William Herschel's career
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Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff

The Comets of Caroline Herschel, Sleuth of the Skies at Slough
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History and Culture

V.F. Polcaro and A. Martocchia

Guidelines for a social history of Astronomy
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Euan MacKie

A new look at the astronomy and geometry of Stonehenge
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Leonid Marsadolov

Archaeoastronomical Aspects of the Archaeological Monuments of Siberia
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Christian Etheridge

A systematic re-evaluation of the sources of Old Norse astronomy
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Aidan Foster

Hierophanies in the Vinland Sagas: Images of a New World
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Inga Elmqvist Söderlund

Inspiration from antique heroic deeds: Hercules as an astronomer
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Patricia Aakhus

Astral Magic and Adelard of Bath’s Liber Prestigiorum; or Why Werewolves Change at the Full Moon
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David Pankenier

Astrology for an Empire: The 'Treatise on the Celestial Offices' (ca. 100 BCE)
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Steven Renshaw

The Inspiration of Subaru as a Symbol of Values and Traditions in Japan
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Daniel Armstrong

Citing The Saucers: Astronomy, UFOs and a persistence of vision
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Alberto Cappi

The concept of gravity before Newton
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Paul Murdin

From Artilleryman to head of state - how astronomy inspired Francois Arago
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Paolo Molaro and Alberto Cappi

Edgar Allan Poe’s cosmology in Eureka
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Voula Saridakis

For ‘the present and future happiness of my dear Pupils’”: The Astronomical and Educational Legacy of Margaret Bryan
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Michael Rowan-Robinson

The invisible universe
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The Arts

Arnold Wolfendale

The Inter-Relation of the Visual Arts and Science in General and Astronomy in Particular
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Lynda Harris

Changing Images of the Milky Way during the Greco-Roman and Medieval Periods
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Lucia Ayala

The Universe in images: Iconography of the Plurality of Worlds
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Tayra M. Carmen Lanuza-Navarro

Astrological culture before its public: the representation of astrology in Golden Age Spanish Theatre
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Emily Urban

Depicting the Heavens: The Use of Astrology in the Frescoes of Rome
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Michael Mendillo

The Artistic Portrayal of the Medicean Moons in Early Astronomical Charts, Books and Paintings
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Rolf Sinclair

Howard Russell Butler: Painter Extraordinary of Solar Eclipses
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Beatriz Garcia, Estela Reynoso, Silvina Pérez Alvarez and Rubén Gabellone

Inspiration of Astronomy in the movies: a history of a close encounter
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Gary Wells

The Moon in the Landscape: Interpreting a Theme of 19th Century Art
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Clive Davenhall

The Space Art of Scriven Bolton
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Matthew Whitehouse

Astronomical Organ Music
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Aaron Plasek

Between Scientists, Writers and Artists: Theorising and Critiquing Knowledge-Production at the Interstices between Disciplines
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Artists

Merja Markkula

The Way I See the Stars: fibre art inspired by astrobiology
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Govinda Sah

Beyond the Notion
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Gisela Weimann

Above all the stars
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Courtney Wrenn

Nebulae (emission / absorption)
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Toby MacLennan

Presentation of Playing the Stars
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Felicity Spear

Extending vision: sky-situated knowledge and the artist’s eye
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Vanessa Stanley

Surveillance, Surveillance, Surveillance
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Jim Cogswell

Molecular Delirium
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