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The Concise Knowledge Astronomy

By: Agnes Mary Clerke,Alfred Fowler,John Ellard Gore

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The Concise Knowledge Astronomy

By: Agnes Mary Clerke,Alfred Fowler,John Ellard Gore

This 1898 work is a comprehensive survey of current astronomical knowledge, written by experts and aimed at the general audience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108023886

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9781108023887

Joyce and Reality

The Empirical Strikes Back

By: John Gordon

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Joyce and Reality

The Empirical Strikes Back

By: John Gordon

Joyce was a realist, but his reality was not ours," writes John Gordon in his new book. Here, he maintains that the shifting styles and techniques of Joyce's works is a function of two interacting realities the external reality of a particular time and place and the internal reality of a character's mental state. In making this case Gordon offers up a number of new readings: how Stephen Dedalus conceives and composes his villanelle; why the Dubliners story about Little Chandler is titled "A Little Cloud"; why Gerty MacDowell suddenly appears and disappears; what is happening when Leopold Bloom stares for two minutes on end at a beer bottle's label; why the triangle etched at the center of Finnegans Wake doubles itself and grows a pair of circles; why the next to last chapter of Ulysses has, by far, the book's highest incidence of the letter C; and who is the man in the macintosh. Gordon, whose authoritative "Finnegans Wake": A Plot Summary received critical acclaim and is considered one of the standard references, revisesand challengesthe received version of that reality. For instance, Joyce features ghost visitations, telepathy, and other paranormal phenomena not as "flights into fantasy" but because he believed in the real possibility of such occurrences.

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378

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Syracuse University Press

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0815630190

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9780815630197

Cosmic Imagery

Key Images in the History of Science

By: John D. Barrow

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Cosmic Imagery

Key Images in the History of Science

By: John D. Barrow

... a tour through the most influential images in science"--Jacket.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393061779

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9780393061772

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon

By: John C. Barentine

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Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon

By: John C. Barentine

The “Ashen Light” of Venus—a ghostly emission of light from the night side of our nearest planetary neighbor—is among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history. In the four centuries since the phenomenon was first reported, highly reputable visual observers of Venus have recorded seeing the Ashen Light, while others have spent a lifetime searching for it without once being convinced that they ever saw it. Is the Ashen Light a trick of the eye? The result of a defective lens? A real scientific event? Occasional references to the Ashen Light are scattered across the literature, yet no work to date has synthesized these records. This book therefore digs deep into the history of the mystery and our latest attempts to understand it, sifting through the clues that might explain whether it is caused by physics, is conjured up by the eye or brain, or a combination of both. This baffling story will appeal to amateur astronomers, hobbyists, and lay readers interested in joining the debate about one of the most elusive observable phenomena ever recorded in the night sky.

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Springer Nature

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3030727157

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9783030727154

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The Concise Knowledge Astronomy

The Concise Knowledge Astronomy

Joyce and Reality

Joyce and Reality

Cosmic Imagery

Cosmic Imagery

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

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