Imagining Other Worlds () von Nicholas Campion

Foreword
Nicholas Campion and Chris Impey

A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons
Lord Rees of Ludlow      

A Cosmic Perspective: A Panel Discussion with the Gresham Professors of Astronomy
Lord Rees of Ludlow, Ian Morison, Carolin Crawford, Michael Rowan-Robinson and Andrew Fabian

Dreams of Distant Worlds
Chris Impey

Memories Unlocked and Places Explored: Stellarium, Temporality and Skyscapes
Daniel Brown

The Oculus Rift Planetarium Project: StarsightVR
Alastair G. Bruce

Adventures in Space: Harmony, Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
Nicholas Campion 

Condensing from a Fluid Haze: John Pringle Nichol, the Nebular Hypothesis and Nineteenth-century Cosmogony
Howard Carlton

Galileo Galilei’s Memorial Tomb in Santa Croce: An Honorific Monument to a Florentine Genius
Liana De Girolami Cheney

Mars and the Mediums
Clive Davenhall

A Cosmic End and its Anthropomorphic and Theological Implications
José G. Funes, S.J.

The Photographic Plate Archive as an Inspiration for Art Projects
Michael Geffert

‘Dancing with the Stars’: Astronomy and Music in the Torres Strait
Duane W. Hamacher, Alo Tapim, Segar Passi and John Barsa

East Meets West: Shi Zhiying’s Picturing  of Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar
John Hatch

‘Life is Astronomical’: Connecting Art, Astronomy & Photography at Royal Museums Greenwich
Marek Kukula and Melanie Vandenbrouck

The Zodiacal Light and its Use in Cultic Practice
George Latura

The Cosmos As Viewed Through the Lens of a Native-American Astronomer-Artist
Annette S. Lee

Christ and the Celestial Sphere: A Unique Mosaic in Saint Isaac’s Cathedral?
Michael Mendillo and Ethan Pollock

A Self-Portrait by Galileo?
Paolo Molaro

Einstein, Galileo, and Kepler: The Scientist Portrait Operas of Philip Glass
David Morgan

John Bevis’s Eighteenth-century Uranographia Britannica and the Atlas Celeste: Oft-Overlooked Treasures
Jay M. Pasachoff and Kevin J. Kilburn

Sir Christopher Wren: Architect-Astronomer
Valerie Shrimplin

Junking Astronomy Jargon
Roberto Trotta

Solargraphy: Making the Invisible Visible
Tarja Trygg

Citizen Science on the iss: STE[+a]M It Up! Preliminary Results of a Storytelling  Experiment Using Biosensors
Elizabeth Forbes Wallace

Balla’s ‘Mercury Passing Before the Sun’ and the Modernist Sun
Gary Wells

About the Contributors
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