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Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus = Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon /

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Title/Author:	Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus/ by John C. Barentine.
Reminder of title:	Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon /
Author:	Barentine, John C.
Description:	XVI, 257 p. 49 illus., 18 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4
ISBN:	9783030727154

Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus = Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon /
Barentine, John C.

Mystery of the Ashen Light of VenusInvestigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon /[electronic resource] :by John C. Barentine. - 1st ed. 2021. - XVI, 257 p. 49 illus., 18 illus. in color.online resource. - Astronomers' Universe,2197-6651. - Astronomers' Universe,.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783030727154

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-72715-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

671541
History of Science.

LC Class. No.: QB1-991

Dewey Class. No.: 520

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