Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus: Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon (Paperback, 2021)

Chapter 1. Prologue: The Martians that never were.- Chapter 2. “I could see the dark part of Venus...”.- Chapter 3. First Light: Early accounts of the Ashen Light 1643?1800.- Chapter 4. Going mainstream: A scientific approach c. 1800?1900.- Chapter 5. What is the light? Historical explanations of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 6. Venus as a knowable world: Chasing the Ashen Light into the Space Age 1900?1980.- Chapter 7. New ideas for an old problem: Observations and science 1980?2020.- Chapter 8. Seeing what we want to see: The psychology of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 9. Perception revisited: The psychophysics of the Ashen Light.- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Evanescence and evasion