The Moon and the Western Imagination

Author: Scott L. Montgomery
Edition: illustrated edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0816517118

The Moon and the Western Imagination

The Moon is at once a face with a thousand expressions and the archetypal planet. Download The Moon and the Western Imagination from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Throughout history it has been gazed upon by people of every culture in every walk of life. From early perceptions of the Moon as an abode of divine forces, humanity has in turn accepted the mathematized Moon of the Greeks, the naturalistic lunar portrait of Jan van Eyck, and the telescopic view of Galileo. Scott Montgomery has produced a richly detailed analysis of how the Moon has been visualized in Western culture through the ages, revealing the faces it has presented to philosophers, writers, artists, and scientists for nearly three millennia. To do this, he has drawn on a wide array of sources that illustrate mankind's changing concept of the nature Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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