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Earth-Moon Relationships Cesare Barbieri

Earth-Moon Relationships By Cesare Barbieri

Earth-Moon Relationships by Cesare Barbieri


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Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, November 8-10, 2000

Earth-Moon Relationships Summary

Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, November 8-10, 2000 by Cesare Barbieri

The Conference on the Earth-Moon relationships brought together a number of distinguished scientists from different fields - such as Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Chemistry - but also scholars of Literature and Art, to discuss these relationships, their origins, and their influence on human activities and beliefs.

Table of Contents

List of Papers. Oral Contributions. Welcome Address; Barbieri. Goodly Frame, Spotty Globe: Earth and Moon in Renaissance Literature; Carroll. Sediments of the Moon and Earth as End-members for Comparative Planetology; Basu. The Moon in the Paduan 14th Century Frescoes; Bellinati. The importance of the Moon in teaching Astronomy at the Primary School; Benacchio. The moon and the origin of life; Benn. Sexual Satellites, Moonlight and the Nuptial Dances of Worms: the Influence of the Moon on the Reproduction of Marine Animals; Bentley. Claire de Lune on the Italian Space Science Programme; Bignami. Fantastic new chondrites, achondrites, and Lunar meteorites as the result of recent meteorite search expeditions in hot and cold deserts; Bischoff. Lunar influences on climate; Camuffo. Apollo Samples and the Geochemical Determination of Basaltic Achondrite Parent Bodies; Consolmagno. Water: Communicator in Moon-Earth Relationships; Davis. `Lunacy' in Mentally Disturbed Children; De Antonio. Highlights from ICEUM4, the 4th International Conference on the Exploration and Utilisation of the Moon; Foing. The D-DIXS X-ray spectrometer on ESA's SMART-1 mission to the Moon; Grande. Lunar and Planetary Perspectives on the Geological History of the Earth; Head. Moonstruck: How realistic is the moon depicted in classic science fiction movies? Jalufka. The Moon and Extra-Solar Planets; J. de Muizon. Craters on the Moon from Galileo to Wegener A Short History of the Impact Hypothesis, and Implications for the Study of Terrestrial Impact Craters; Koeberl. Reckoning Time and Longitude and the history of the Earth Rotation, using the Moon; Leschiutta. Ancient moons; Longo. The Formation of Chemical Elements and their Abundances in the Solar System; Matteucci. A new view of the Moon in light of data from Clementine and Prospector missions, FORM da faxare; McCallum. The Atmosphere of the Moon; Mendillo. The moon and life on earth; Morgan. Marine animal behaviour in relation to lunar phase; Naylor. Moon-struck: Artists Rediscover Nature and Observe, FORM da faxare; Olsen-Pasachoff. Nitrogen on the Moon: What does it tell us? Owen. Search for Antimatter in Cosmic Rays Using the Moon; Peruzzo. Mysteries of the Farside of the Moon: What Galileo Couldn't See; Pieters. Lunar maps of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Tobias Mayers' Map and its 19th Century Edition; Pigatto. SMART-1: The First Time of Europe on the Moon; Racca. Palaeolithic Timekeepers Looking at the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic: The Lunar Cycle and the Pleiades in the Cave of La Tete-du-Lion (Ardeche, France) &endash; 21,000 BP; Rappenglueck. Lunar influence on plants; Schad. A Perspective on the Earth from the Moon; Scott. `Earth-Moon Relationships': highlights of the conference and concluding remarks; Swings. The dispute between Carlini-Plana and Laplace on the theory of the Moon; Tucci. On the orbit of the Moon; Valsecchi. Geochemical Evidence for a Close Genetic Relationship of Earth and Moon; Waenke. Macro and microcosmos: moon influence on human body; Zanchin. Lunar Rhythms in Forestry Traditions &endash; Lunar-Correlated Phenomena in Tree Biology and Wood Properties; Zuercher. Posters. Meteor Showers on the Lunar Atmosphere; Barbieri. LUNAM 2000 (LUNar Atmospheric Mission); Barbieri. Earthshine at the rainbow angle; Benn. Seneca and the Moon; Berno. The Moon, the Stars and the Milk; Bertola. Science Fiction in Naples in the Middle of the 19-th Century; <

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Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, November 8-10, 2000 by Cesare Barbieri
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