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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light- Front Cover; From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of plates; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 360° OF ILLUMINATION; LIGHT MATTERS; An early sun; Light and matter; LIGHT AS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH; Shedding light on the limitations of microalgal production; Sunflowers; In the Cambrian light . . .; Light and the evolution of vision: a conversation with Rob Barton; ON THE EDGE OF THE DARK; Lighting space; ATTRACTIVE AND REPULSIVE LIGHT |
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Biological lighthousesCosmic signallers; Lighthouses of the insect world; PHENOMENOLOGICAL LIGHT; Visual rays: the light within the eye; DIVINE RAYS; Lighthouses in the Bible: symbols of enlightenment and salvation; The aesthetics and ethics of visible and inner light: a conversation with Douglas Davies; Light as metaphor and as technology, c.1700-1900; Guiding light: the early modern lighthouse as image and emblem; LIGHTHOUSES IN TIME AND SPACE; The Colossus of Rhodes according to Giacomo Torelli; 'Places of light': lighthouses and minarets |
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'On lofty cliffs, where the sea pounds the rock . . .': lighthouses in early medieval EnglandThe redistribution of light and dark at sea; TECHNOLOGIES OF LIGHT AND POWER; Technologies of light; The Fresnel lens: enabling lighthouse technology; Early lighthouse lamp technology; BUILDING THE LIGHTHOUSE; The physicality of lighthouses; The modern lighthouse: a sculpture by accident; Sky-tower as icon; Turner's lights; Illuminating science: scientific expertise and lighthouse reform in 19th-century Britain; Light offshore: governing dark waters in shipping straits |
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A personal view from the lighthouseThe materiality of lighthouses; Shining a light on lighthouse resilience in the 21st century; Enmeshed in geographies of sand, sea and war: the lighthouses of Skagen Odde; Lightships; MATERIAL RELATIVES; Wish image; The extraterrestrial lighthouse: St John's Beacon, Liverpool; THE BODY OF THE LIGHTHOUSE; The lighthouse at Cape Reinga; Horn section: John Tyndall's 1873 foghorn testing sessions; Disturbing the peace: the Cloch foghorn and changing coastal soundscapes in the 19th century; Foghorn Requiem; Death of a lighthouse; LIGHT MESSAGES; Ambiguous beams |
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Lights across the skyComing in on a wing and a prayer; Trinity House and the formation of the modern British state; The lit archipelago; The Albion Lighthouse: from Dutch shipwrecks to British colonialism and US imperialism; The lighthouse without a light: lighthouses, exploration and geography; The lighthouse as survival; The lighthouse as a site of refuge and welcome; A vigil: Disappearance at Sea, Tacita Dean, 1996; The deadly lighthouse beam; Moth hunting in Sumatra; SPACE AND PLACE; The rhythms of place, the rhythms of the lighthouse; The watcher at the edge |
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Relational places: lighthouses and networks of mobility |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Edensor, Tim
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Puckering, Joanna
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| ISBN |
9781317131618 |
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1317131614 |
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