Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus

Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon

Barentine, John C.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

09/2021

257

Mole

Inglês

9783030727147

15 a 20 dias

507

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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.
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Ashen Light;Martian canals;dark side of venus;observing Venus;Venus 17th century;17th century astronomy;Ashen Light 1643;Victorian astronomy;observing Earthshine