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In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France - Rethinking the Early Modern Claire Goldstein
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In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France - Rethinking the Early Modern
Claire Goldstein
Offering a new history of a formative cultural and political era through the cosmic phenomena that captured the public’s imagination. As Claire Goldstein demonstrates, literary texts, cultural institutions, and architecture inspired by comets offer a different perspective on the relationship between sensory experience, ideology, and artistic form.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 15, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9780810148123 |
| Publishers | Northwestern University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 454 g |