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Imagining Solar Energy - The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture (Hardcover)
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Imagining Solar Energy - The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Science and Literature
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Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought
to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature,
art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and
reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have
been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives
shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's
history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to
climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance
as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining
Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical
resonances of solar power - from the Renaissance to the present day
- have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and
sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging
from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra
Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates
into many different kinds of power (physical, political,
intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the
importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific
endeavours.
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