The moon that wasn’t.
Subtitle: The saga of Venus’ spurious satellite.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basel, Boston, Berlin
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9783764389086
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: vii; label: List of figures
title: ix; label: 1.  Introduction
title: 1; label: 2. A moon or not? A century of confusion
title: 7; label: 2.1 Venus’ satellite observed: Fontana
title: 7; label: 2.2 Jean Dominique Cassini
title: 19; label: 2.3 The satellites of Mars
title: 24; label: 2.4 James Short and his contemporaries
title: 29; label: 3. From climax to anticlimax
title: 39; label: 3.1 The 1761 Venus transit
title: 44; label: 3.2 Observations and non-observations
title: 56; label: 3.3 The Danish connection
title: 59; label: 3.4 The Venus moon and enlightenment culture
title: 68; label: 4. Contemporary analysis and criticism
title: 77; label: 4.1 Mairan’s explaining away
title: 77; label: 4.2 Ghost images?
title: 80; label: 4.3 Lambert’s orbital elements
title: 87; label: 5. A spurious but persistent satellite
title: 95; label: 5.1 Dismissed but not forgotten
title: 95; label: 5.2 Worthy of attention
title: 102; label: 5.3 The Venus moon reconsidered
title: 109; label: 6. Closure: the discussion of the 1880s
title: 117; label: 6.1 The planet Neith
title: 119; label: 6.2 Stroobant’s solution
title: 128; label: 6.3 The second moon of the Earth
title: 133; label: 6.4 Twentieth-century postscripts
title: 139; label: 7. Conclusion, and a note on the satellites of Uranus
title: 145; label: Biographical sketches
title: 155; label: Bibliography
title: 167; label: Index
title: 193