VISTAS IN ASTRONOMY
Editors
PETER BEER, ARCHIE E. ROY and RAYMOND E. WHITE
Special Issue
THE INSPIRATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA (INSAP)
A Conference Sponsored by the Vatican Observatory,
held at Villa Mondo Migliore, Rocca di Papa, Italy
27 June-2 July 1994
Guest Editors
G. V. COYNE, S. J. and R. M. SINCLAIR
Contents
| Editor's Note | |
| R. E. White | vii |
| Introduction to the Special Issue for the INSAP Conference | |
| G. V. Coyne | ix |
| Introduction | |
| R. M. Sinclair | 381 |
| Cultural Impacts | |
| The Impact of the Qur'anic Conception of Astronomical Phenomena on Islamic Civilization | |
| I. A. Ahmad | 395 |
| Negotiating the Highwire of Heaven: The Milky Way and the Itinerary of the Soul | |
| E. C. Krupp | 405 |
| Visual Astronomy in the Mythology and Ritual of India: The Sun Temples of Varanasi | |
| J. M. Malville and R. P. B. Singh | 431 |
| On the Meanings of the Celestial Bodies in Pre-Hispanic Mexico | |
| M. León-Portilla | 451 |
| The Celestial Basis of Civilization | |
| W. B. Masse | 463 |
| Eclipse Imagery in Mexica Sculpture of Central Mexico | |
| S. Milbrath | 479 |
| Astrological Origins of Chinese Dynastic Ideology | |
| D. W. Pankenier | 503 |
| Astronomical Influences on Prehistoric Ritual Architecture in North-Western Europe: The Case of the Stone Rows | |
| C. L. N. Ruggles and H. A. W. Burl | 517 |
| Stars and Seasons in Southern Africa | |
| K. V. Snedegar | 529 |
| The Pleiades and Hesperides: Finding Parity with an Astronomical Key | |
| T. D. Worthen | 539 |
| Philosophic Impacts | |
| The Stars Above and the Very Idea of Philosophy | |
| G. Gale | 547 |
| The Search for Life in the Universe: A Humanistic Perspective | |
| C. D. Impey | 553 |
| Why the Pre-Copernican Cosmological Revolution Was Not a Revolution? | |
| A. G. Pacholczyk | 573 |
| The Observation of the Cosmos and the Natural Knowledge of God in Judaeo-Christian Revelation | |
| G. Tanzella-Nitti | 581 |
| Artistic Impacts | |
| Maria Magdalena, the Morning Star | |
| A. Lebeuf | 591 |
| Chaucer's Dantean Presentation of Time in The Canterhury Tales: Libra and the Moon | |
| M. Osborn | 605 |
| Whitman's "Learn'd Astronomer" and the Poetry of Stars | |
| R. L. Poss | 615 |
| John Bauer: Painter of a Star-Spangled Fairy-Tale World | |
| M. Sundin and C. Roslund | 623 |
| From Starry Sky to Physical Universe: Astronomical Imagery in Polish Romantic Poetry | |
| J. Wlodarczyk | 629 |
| Scientific Impacts | |
| Sub Specie Æternitatis: How Astronomical Horizons Have Expanded | |
| J. E. Beckman | 639 |
| Recent Results in Cometary Astronomy: Implications for the Ancient Sky | |
| M. E. Bailey | 647 |
| The Nature of Punctuational Crises and the Spenglerian Model of Civilization | |
| S. V. M. Clube | 673 |
| Anaxagoras and the Scientist/Laity Interaction | |
| N. J. Woolf | 699 |
List of Those Works Presented in the INSAP Display/Poster Session
Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel Processes
Dr Robert L. Carneiro
American Museum of Natural History
Stars and Stones on Emperor Elagabalus' Coins
Dr F. Comeron
Departamento d'Astronomía Meteorología, Universidad de Barcelona
Astronomy and Post-Colonial Attitudes in Australia
R. F. Haynes Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO and R. D. Haynes
School of English, University of New South Wales
The Galilean Moons. Why Do the People Stare?
John David Mooney
The John David Mooney Foundation
The Heelstone: The Sundial Sun God of Stonehenge
George Reed
Department of Geology and Astronomy, West Chester University
The Contributions and Limits of Formal Thought in Astronomy, Illustrated by Stellar
Classifications
Stephanie Ruphy
Observatoire de Paris
Calendric Orientation of Ireland's Early Christian Oratories
Vance Tiede
The Archoastronomy Center
Discovery of Planets Reflected in Cuneiform Religious Texts: Jupiter and First Zodiacal
Concepts
Izabela Zbikowska
Institute of the History of Science Polish Academy of Science
Go to the INSAP homepage
Go to the Webpage for the First INSAP Conference
Go to the Webpage for the Second INSAP Conference
Go to Editor's Note by R.E. White
Go to introductory note and welcome by G.V. Coyne, S.J.
Go to Introduction, by R.M. Sinclair
Go to Amy Sandback's Prologue for the Leonardo papers
Go to "Table of Contents" for Leonardo 29(2) papers
Go to an album of photos taken during the First Conference
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