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{{Short description|Psychological construct}}
[[File:VLT Cerro Paranal Total Lunar Eclipse 21 December 2010.jpg|thumb|The [[night sky]] without [[light pollution]] over [[Paranal Observatory]] in the [[Atacama Desert]]]]
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==History==
In a series of lectures in the United States, the philosopher [[George Santayana]] used the appearance of the night sky as an example of what is attractive to the human mind: an intricacy delicately poised between unfathomable complexity and uninteresting simplicity.<ref>{{cite book | last =Barrow| first =John| title =The Artful Universe Expanded| publisher =[[Oxford University Press]]| date =2011 | page =<!-- pages aren't numbered --> | isbn =978-0191615832}}</ref> Because of the absence of light pollution in antiquity, stars of the sixth [[apparent magnitude]] were more widely visible by the naked eye. American philosopher [[Holmes Rolston III]] juxtaposed the ancient [[aesthetics]] of the night sky and the modern one: "Today, we are almost amused at the way the ancients fancied various [[constellation]]s there. At night, we no longer admire the [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]] as a hunter, any more than by day do we admire a [[cumulus cloud]] as a basket of washing".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hrolston/Celestial-aesthetics.pdf|title=Celestial Aesthetics: Over Our Heads and/or in Our Heads|author=Holmes Rolston III|publisher=[[Colorado State University]]|page=5|date=2011|accessdate=10 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205832/http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hrolston/Celestial-aesthetics.pdf|archive-date=12 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Comparison with astronality ==
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