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Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time / Michael Benson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Abrams, 2014Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1419713876
  • 9781419713873 (hbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
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: 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.Summary: Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Oversize 523.1022 B474 Available 33111007704287
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Michael Benson tells the thrilling story of the discovery and description of the universe in a new way. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he 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.

Cosmigraphics explores the visual side of our great­est imaginative achievement as a species: the unveiling of a vast universe that is largely invisible to our senses. It will be a revelation to space-struck Earthlings, art lovers, and readers interested in the history of science, the visualization of information, graphic design, and mapping.

Index.

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.

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.

Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.

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