Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus [E-Book] : 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...
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Personal Name(s): | Barentine, John C., author |
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1st edition 2021. |
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Springer,
2021
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XVI, 257 pages 49 illustrations, 18 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783030727154 |
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10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4 |
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Astronomers' Universe
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- Chapter 1. Prologue: The Martians that never were
- Chapter 2. "I could see the dark part of Venus..."
- Chapter 3. First Light: Early accounts of the Ashen Light 1643-1800
- Chapter 4. Going mainstream: A scientific approach c. 1800-1900
- Chapter 5. What is the light? Historical explanations of the Ashen Light
- Chapter 6. Venus as a knowable world: Chasing the Ashen Light into the Space Age 1900-1980
- Chapter 7. New ideas for an old problem: Observations and science 1980-2020
- Chapter 8. Seeing what we want to see: The psychology of the Ashen Light
- Chapter 9. Perception revisited: The psychophysics of the Ashen Light
- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Evanescence and evasion.