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Volume 8
Volume 8 no 4 is an anthology based on the fourth conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAPIV). Since 1994 the INSAP conferences have provided a unique international focus in the study of Cultural Astronomy, and our relationship with the sky and the heavens. INSAPIV was organised in August 2003 by Nicholas Campion from Bath Spa University, Valerie Shrimplin, and Peter Hingley, who was Librarian at the Royal Astronomical Society. It took place during a rare English heat wave, so the volume cover shows an image of the Sun shining on the river, for which Oxford is well known. The conference featured an international array of scholars drawn together by a shared fascination for the role that the sky – and astronomy – plays in culture. In addition to the many brilliant lectures, posters and art displays, a feature of the programme was a dawn coach trip to Stonehenge with Clive Ruggles as our guide.
Two other INSAP anthologies were published in association with the Sophia Centre. The INSAPVII volume, edited by Nicholas Campion and Rolf Sinclair and also an issue of Culture and Cosmos, is here.
The INSAPIX anthology, Imagining Other Worlds, edited by Nicholas Campion and Chris Impey, is available for purchase here.
Other INSAP publications, published by Vistas in Astronomy, Leonardo and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series are listed here.
For the INSAP conferences see here.
The INSAP IV proceedings are dedicated to Ray White, one of the founders of INSAP, who sadly died shortly after the conference.
Table of Contents
Author
Title
Front Matter, Dedication to Ray White, Key Note Speakers and the Story of INSAP.
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Valerie Shrimplin
Organising INSAP
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Rolf Sinclair
Foreword: INSAPIV in Oxford: A Summary
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Nicholas Campion
Introduction: The Inspiration of Astrononical Phenomena
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Abstracts of Papers and Posters not included in the Proceedings
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Hubert A. Allen, Jr.
Hawkins' Way: Rembembering Astronomer Gerald S. Hawkins
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Hubert A. Allen, Jr. and Terry Edward Ballone
Star Imagery in Petroglyph National Monument
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Mark Butterworth
Astronomy and the Magic Lantern
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Ann Laurence Caudano
Sun, Moon and Stars on Kievan Rus Jewellery (10th - 13th Centuries)
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Nicholas Campion
The Sun is God
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Anne Chapman-Rietschi
Cosmic Gardens
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Deborah Garwood
Paris Solstice
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N. J. Girardot
Celestial Worlds In the Work of Self-Taught Visionary Artists With
Special Reference to Howard Finster's vision of 1982
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John G. Hatch
Desire, Heavenly Bodies, and a Surrealist's Fascination with the
Celestial Theatre
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Holly Henry
Bertrand Russell in Blue Spectacles: His Fascination with Astronomy
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Ronald Hicks
Astronomy and the Sacred Landscape in Irish Myth
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Chris Impey
Why Are We So Lonely?
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Bernd Klahn
The Aberration of Starlight and/in Postmodernist Fiction
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Nick Kollerstrom
How Galileo dedicated the moons of Jupiter to Cosimo II de Medici
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Arnold Lebeuf
Dating the five Suns of Aztec cosmology
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Andrea D. Lobel
Trailing the Paper Moon: Astronomical Interpretations of
Exodus 12:1-2
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Stephen C. McCluskey
Wordsworth's 'Rydal Chapel' and the Astronomical
Orientation of Churches
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David Madacsi
Atmospheres and Aesthetic Distance in Planetary and
Lunar Environments
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Daniel R. Matlaga
A Journey of Celestial Lights: The Sky as Allegory in Melville's
Moby Dick
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Paul Murdin
Representing the Moon
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R. P. Olowin
Robinson Jeffers: Poetic Responses to a Cosmological Revolution
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David W. Pankenier
A Brief History of Beiji (Northern Culmen)
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Richard Poss
Poetic Responses to the Size of the Universe: Astronomical Imagery
and Cosmological Constraints
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Barbara Rappengluck
The material of the solid sky and its traces in culture
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Brad Ricca
The Night of Falling Stars: Reading he 1833 Meteor Storm
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Patricia Ricci
Lux ex Tenebris: Etienne-Louis Boullee's Cenotaph for Sir
Issac Newton
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Sarah Richards
Die Planetentheorie: its uses and meanings for the Saxon mining
communities and the culture of the Dresden Court 1553-1719
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William Saslaw and Paul Murdin
The Double Apollos of Istrus
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Petra G. Schmidl
Dusk and Dawn in Medieval Islam: On the Importance of Twilight
Phenomenon with Some Examples of Their Representations in Texts
and on Instruments
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Valerie Shrimplin
Borromini and the New Astronomy: the elliptical dome
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Joshua Stein
Cicero's Use of Astronomy as Proof of the Existence of the Gods
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Antje Steinhoefel
Art and Astronomy in the Service of Religion: Observations on the
Work of John Russell (1745-1806)
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Burkard Steinrucken
An interpretation of the 'Sky-Disc of Nebra' as an icon for a
bronze age planetarium mechanism with parallels to the moving
world-soul in Plato's Timaeus
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Gary Wells
Daumier and The Popular Image of Astronomy
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