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Eclipse & Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

March 12, 2024: 12 - 2 PM

NOTE NEW LOCATION: DOE 308A within the Art History/Classics Library (3rd Floor Doe Library)

In collaboration with the Earth Sciences & Map Library, Art History/Classics Library, Art History and Astronomy departments, this pop up exhibit will feature maps and materials inspired by the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse and “Eclipse & Revelation,” a newly published book by Henrike Lange which shows total solar eclipses from the interdisciplinary perspectives of the sciences, arts, humanities, history, and theology.

PROGRAM

TIME	EVENT	PRESENTER
12:10 PM	Welcome and Introduction — Eclipse & Revelation	Henrike Lange, UC Berkeley History of Art and Italian Studies
12:15 PM	Welcome to the Earth Sciences & Map Library	Sam Teplitzky, Open Science Librarian and liaison to the Earth & Planetary Sciences + Astronomy Departments and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	The Berkeley 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Online Exhibit and Study Guide	Lynn Cunningham, UC Berkeley Art Librarian
12:30 PM	The Years between Eclipses: At Least Three "Worlds of Creativity" (Tom McLeish)	Henrike Lange, UC Berkeley History of Art and Italian Studies
	Observation, Theory, and Awe in Art and Science	Henrike Lange in conversation with Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley Astronomy
	Remembering Jay Pasachoff — Sharing the Experience of Co-Writing and Eclipse-Following	Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley Astronomy
1:00 - 1:15 PM	Break & Drawing Contest
1:15 - 1:45 PM	Introduction — Eclipse Megamovie Project 2024 Into the Dawn: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Eclipse Journey Eclipse Megamovie 2017 — Eclipse Megamovie 2024	Hannah Hellman, Sonoma State University & EM2024 Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley & EM2024

2024 Eclipse Materials

Eclipse and Revelation by Henrike Lange (Editor); Tom McLeish (Editor)
ISBN: 9780192857996

Publication Date: 2024-02-27
Road Atlas for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 - Color Edition by Fred Espenak (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781941983157

Publication Date: 2024
Totality by Mark Littmann; Fred Espenak
ISBN: 9780198879084

Publication Date: 2023-10-19
Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 map by Michael Zeiler
Call Number: G3701.B1 2024 .Z45 Case D

Publication Date: 2016

Eclipse Maps, Atlases and Guides

American Eclipse by David Baron
ISBN: 9781631490163

Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps by F. Richard Stephenson; M. A. Houlden
Call Number: QB541 .S661 1986

ISBN: 9780521267236

Publication Date: 1986-04-03
The Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide by Jay M. Pasachoff; Michael A. Covington
Call Number: QB121 .C69 1993

ISBN: 9780521456517

Publication Date: 1993-11-18
Chasing eclipses; the total solar eclipses of 1905, 1914, 1925 by Joslin, Rebecca
Call Number: QB544.05 .J6

Publication Date: 1929
Eclipse by Duncan Steel; Paul Davies
Call Number: QB541 .S65 2001

ISBN: 9780309074384

Publication Date: 2001-11-09
Eclipse Chasers by Nick Lomb; Toner Stevenson
ISBN: 9781486317073

Publication Date: 2023-02-22
Elements of Solar Eclipses, 1951-2200 by Jean H. Meeus
Call Number: QB544.88 .M441 1989

ISBN: 0943396212

Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses by Espenak, Fred and Meeus, Jean
Call Number: QB541 .E87 2009

Publication Date: 2009
Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation by F. Richard Stephenson
Call Number: QB541 .S663 1997

ISBN: 9780521461948

Publication Date: 1997-06-05
In the Shadow of the Moon by Anthony Aveni
Call Number: QB541 .A84 2017

ISBN: 9780300223194

Publication Date: 2017-04-25
Mask of the Sun by John Dvorak
Call Number: QB541 .D846 2017

ISBN: 9781681773308

Publication Date: 2017-03-07
On the relation between photometric observations and geometric positions of the sun and moon during a solar eclipse by Vera Rubin
Call Number: QB1.G4 .M6
Phenomena by Giles Sparrow; Martin Rees (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780226824116

Publication Date: 2022-11-14
Solar eclipses from 2011 to 2060 by Zeiler, Michael
Call Number: G3201.B1 2011 .Z4 Map Case D

Publication Date: 2011
Sun Moon Earth by Tyler Nordgren
Call Number: QB541 .N67 2016

ISBN: 9780465060924

Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Total Addiction by Kate Russo
Call Number: QB541 .R87 2012

ISBN: 9783642304804

Publication Date: 2012-08-01
Total Eclipses by Serge Koutchmy; Pierre Guillermier
Call Number: QB541 .G85 1999

ISBN: 9781852331603

Publication Date: 1999-07-16
Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them by Martin Mobberley
Call Number: QB541 .M63 2007

ISBN: 9780387698274

Publication Date: 2007-09-19

Books about the Sun

Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy by Arvind Bhatnagar; William Livingston
Call Number: QB521 .B42 2005

ISBN: 9789812382443

Publication Date: 2005-04-01
The Solar Corona by Leon Golub; Jay M. Pasachoff
Call Number: QB529 .G65 2010

ISBN: 9780521882019

Publication Date: 2009-10-08
Our Explosive Sun by Pal Brekke
Call Number: QB521 .B74 2012

ISBN: 9781461405719

Publication Date: 2011-12-10

Art & Astronomy

Cosmos: the art and science of the universe by Roberta J. M. Olson; Jay M. Pasachoff
Call Number: MAIN N8225.M59 O48 2019

ISBN: 9781789140545

Publication Date: 2019-07-10

Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerized us, and heavenly bodies have inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, and scientists. Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolors, prints, as well as plates from books, celestial diagrams, and astronomical photography, this book showcases the superstars of the firmament and the universe beyond in sumptuous illustrations.
Eclipse by James Turrell
Call Number: Art History/Classics Cage ; N6537.T78 A64 1999

ISBN: 9783775708982

Publication Date: 2000-04-02
Fire in the Sky: comets and meteors, the decisive centuries, in British art and science by Roberta J. M. Olson; Jay M. Pasachoff; Colin T. Pillinger (Epilogue by)
Call Number: MAIN N6766 .O45 1998

ISBN: 9780521630603

Publication Date: 1998-02-26

Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced a larger number and greater variety of representations of comets and meteors than any other country. The development of new technologies, and the burgeoning interest of the general public in science and art, dovetailed with the inherent British interest in nature and a strong literary tradition of comet and meteor symbolism. This beautifully illustrated book examines the link between these works and the achievements of British science in the wake of Newton and Halley.
Joseph Cornell and Astronomy by Kirsten Hoving
Call Number: MAIN N6537.C66 H68 2009

ISBN: 9780691134987

Publication Date: 2008-12-21

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy provides an in-depth look at one artist's intense fascination with the science of astronomy.
Looking Up: the skyviewing sculptures of Isamu Noguchi by Hafthor Yngvason (Editor, Contribution by); Matthew Kirsch (Contribution by)
Call Number: Ethnic Studies NB237.N6 A4 2022

ISBN: 9781911282617

Publication Date: 2022-07-12

Looking Up explores Noguchi's work on the themes of space, charting our place in the universe, and 'skyviewing'; examines the changing artistic climate during his long career; and places him in context with a younger generation of artists, including Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, JamesTurrell, and Charles Ross.
Making Marvels: science and splendor at the courts of Europe by Florian Bayer (Contribution by); Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (Contribution by); Peter Plassmeyer (Contribution by); Paulus Rainer (Contribution by); Dirk Syndram (Contribution by); Wolfram Koeppe (Editor); Noam Andrews (Contribution by)
Call Number: MAIN NK925 .K64 2019

ISBN: 9781588396778

Publication Date: 2019-12-10

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of Europe At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making Marvels demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions.
Wolfgang Tillmans: view from above by Zdnek Felix (Editor); Rudolf Schmitz (Text by); Giorgio Verzotti (Text by)
Call Number: Art History/Classics Room 308J ; TR647 .T555 2001

ISBN: 9783775710848

Publication Date: 2001-11-02

Multimedia

Multiverse Eclipse Megamovie Project
Similar to the 2017 project, the Eclipse Megamovie Project will gather images of the 2024 total solar eclipse from over 1,000 volunteer photographers and amateur astronomers, as well as many more members of the general public. We will then use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support analysis of the images to reveal the plasma transients within collections of photographs.
A Tour of NASA’s 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Map
A map developed using data from a variety of NASA sources shows the April 8, 2024 total eclipse path as a dark band. Outside this path, purple lines indicate how much of the Sun will become covered by the Moon during the partial eclipse.
World Atlas of Solar Eclipse Paths
The LightSound Project - A Solar Eclipse Sonification Tool
The LightSound Project has developed the LightSound device which was designed and developed in 2017 as a tool for the Blind and Low Vision (BLV) community to experience a solar eclipse with sound.
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024 with Alex Filippenko
October 17, 2023: Lecture by Alex Filippenko on the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024.
California Live! presents Life, the Universe and Everything with Alex Filippenko
September 21, 2023: California magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph and astrophysicist and educator Alex Filippenko discuss Life, the Universe and Everything at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Pat and Alex cover topics including the mysteries of dark energy and findings from the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024!

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