Eclipse and Revelation

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 11th January 2024 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: The J.A. Jones Hoober Observatory

Let me tell you about some friends of mine, and a project seven years in the making. Tom McLeish, professor of Natural Philosophy at York University, is an old friend of mine. In August 2017 he was at a conference in Indiana and took time out to see the solar eclipse from Crofton, Kentucky. Tom is a great fan of cross-cultural studies and resolved to run a project to examine solar eclipses from as many perspectives as possible. He brought on board Henrike Lange, associate professor of Italian Renaissance Architecture and Art at UC Berkeley, as a co-editor. They assembled a team - historians, art historians, a musicologist, meteorologist, solar physicist, Dante expert, animal behaviour expert and theologian. They also needed an eclipse chasing nerd. For some reason Tom thought of me... This is the story of the Eclipse and Revelation project, and how I became involved in the production of the finished work, ahead of the next American eclipse in April 2024; "Eclipse and Revelation" will be published in February 2024 by OUP. Here is the book website.

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Speaker: Mike Frost

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