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Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time / Michael Benson.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, New York : Abrams, 2014Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 x 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781419713873
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 523.10222 23 B474
Contents:
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.
Summary: Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.Summary: 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.
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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.

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.