Book
Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time / Michael Benson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419713873 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1419713876
- Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), charts ; 32 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Owen Gingerich -- Introduction -- 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, etc.: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Universe > Pictorial works. Cosmology in art. Astronomy in art. Scientific illustration. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
