TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benson,Michael
AU  - Gingerich,Owen
TI  - Cosmigraphics: picturing space through time 
SN  - 9781419713873
U1  - 523.10222 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Abrams
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - History
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Cosmology in art
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Owen Gingerich -- Introduction / Michael Benson -- Creation -- Earth -- The moon -- The sun -- The structure of the universe -- Planets and moons -- Constellations, the zodiac, and the Milky Way -- Eclipses and transits -- Comets and meteors -- Auroras and atmospheric phenomena
N2  - Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations; Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, Benson chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity's ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time
ER  -