Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [128]
[>] In the chambers of Lascaux: The names of the chambers of the Lascaux Cave and the figures in them are from Norbert Aujoulat, Lascaux: Movement, Space, and Time, trans. Martin Street (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005), p. 30.
[>] "The iconography": Ibid., p. 194.
"Achieving full and accurate": Sophie A. de Beaune and Randall White, "Ice Age Lamps," Scientific American, March 1993, p. 112.
[>] "render to God": Asser's Life of King Alfred, trans. L. C. Jane (New York: Cooper Square, 1966), pp. 85–87.
11 "an object like the ghost": Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Boston: Bedford Books, 1996), p. 337.
[>] "It was said that": Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days (Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire House, 1993), p. 34.
"a serious undertaking": Harriet Beecher Stowe, Poganuc People: Their Lives and Loves (New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1878), p. 230.
[>] "cut very small": Arthur H. Hayward, Colonial Lighting (New York: Dover Publications, 1962), pp. 84–85.
"even the best-read people": Marshall B. Davidson, "Early American Lighting," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 3, no. 1 (Summer 1944): 30.
[>] "There are several Ways": Jonathan Swift, "Directions to Servants," Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces, 1733–1742, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1959), pp. 14–15.
"stinking tallow": William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, in The Riverside Shakespeare (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), p. 1529.
[>] "At the Court": William T. O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), p. 37.
"In the middle": Jean Verdon, Night in the Middle Ages, trans. George Holoch (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), p. 77.
"Their fire sticks": Dr. A. S. Gatschet, quoted in Walter Hough, Fire as an Agent in Human Culture, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin, no. 139 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1926), p. 99.
[>] "a cold dark frosty": The Tinder Box (London: William Marsh, 1832), quoted in O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting, p. 237.
"About two o'clock": James Boswell, quoted in Molly Harrison, The Kitchen in History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972), pp. 92–93.
"unfortunate man staying": Jane C. Nylander, Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760–1860 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994), p. 107.
[>] "The English dwell": Quoted in A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 48.
"found it a matter": John Smeaton, quoted in O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting, p. 224.
"A French Book of Trades'": Ekirch, At Day's Close, p. 156.
"From Easter to Saint-Rémi": Verdon, Night in the Middle Ages, p. 111.
18 "A servant would have": Cyril of Jerusalem, in Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, eds., A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd. ser., 7 (New York: Christian Literature, 1894) p. 52.
"And what [is] more": Ibid., pp. 52–53.
"in orderly rows": Gertrude Whiting, Tools and Toys of Stitchery (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928), p. 253.
CHAPTER 2: TIME OF DARK STREETS
[>] "The light of the sun": Libanius, quoted in M. Luckiesh, Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization (New York: Century, 1920), p. 153.
"Hang-chou boasted": Yi-Fu Tuan, "The City: Its Distance from Nature," Geographical Review 68, no. 1 (January 1978): 9.
"No oil lamps lighted": Jérôme Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire, ed. Henry T. Rowell (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1940), p. 47.
[>] "About half a league": Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quoted in A. Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 63.
"as if it were in tyme": Fynes Moryson, quoted ibid., p. 61.
"maintained more than": Ekirch, At Day's Close, p. 64.
"At night all houses": Quoted in Wolfgang Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, trans. Angela Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 81.
[>] "whose