Mapping The Skies
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Mapping The Sky
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Author : Pamela Dell
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2011
Mapping The Sky written by Pamela Dell and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Astronomy categories.
Earth is one small speak among billions of stars, planets, and moons. So how can we figure out where it is in the universe? The answer is sky maps and charts! Maps can tell us where Earth is located in the huge star system we call the Milky Way galaxy. Charts can help us explore other planets and the Moon. They can even help us study the stars. Begin your adventure as an astronomer by using maps and star charts to learn about what you can see in the night sky-and what you can't see! Book jacket.
Mapping The Skies
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Author : Walter Oleksy
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Release Date : 2003-02-01
Mapping The Skies written by Walter Oleksy and has been published by Children's Press(CT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explores the tools and technologies that scientists have used through the centuries to learn and map the geography of outer space, including those resulting from the space race.
Mapping The Skies
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Author : Robin Kerrod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Mapping The Skies written by Robin Kerrod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nature categories.
Mapping The Sky
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Author : Leïla Haddad
language : en
Publisher: Seuil
Release Date : 2003
Mapping The Sky written by Leïla Haddad and has been published by Seuil this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Science categories.
An introduction to astronomy that discusses how the universe has been explored and understood throughout history; includes a guide to star gazing with maps of the stars' positions.
The Sky Atlas
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Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-10-17
The Sky Atlas written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
After the enormous international success of The Phantom Atlas and The Golden Atlas, Edward Brooke-Hitching's stunning new book unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during mankind's quest to map the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography - a glorious genre of map-making often overlooked by modern map books - as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogues, antique instruments and other appealing curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars and planets, but also of gods, devils, weather wizards, flying sailors, medieval aliens, mythological animals and rampaging spirits. The reader is taken on a tour of star-obsessed cultures around the world, learning about Tibetan sky burials, star-covered Inuit dancing coats, Mongolian astral prophets and Sir William Herschel's 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first planet to be found since antiquity. Even stranger are the forgotten stories from European history, like the English belief of the Middle Ages in ships that sailed a sea above the clouds, 16th-century German UFO sightings and the Edwardian aristocrat who mistakenly mapped alien-made canals on the surface of Mars. As the intricacies of our universe are today being revealed with unprecedented clarity, there has never been a better time for a highly readable book as beautiful as the night sky to contextualise the scale of these achievements for the general reader.
Mapping The Sky
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Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1988-11-30
Mapping The Sky written by International Astronomical Union. Symposium and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-30 with Science categories.
Proceedings of the 133rd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Paris, France, June 1-5, 1987
Star Maps
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Author : Nick Kanas
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-05
Star Maps written by Nick Kanas and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Science categories.
Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.
The Mapping Of The Heavens
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Author : Peter Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Release Date : 1995
The Mapping Of The Heavens written by Peter Whitfield and has been published by Pomegranate Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Astronomy categories.
Throughout history, people have sought ways in which to "map" the heavens. These efforts have often resulted in very beautiful documents. The Mapping of the Heavens reproduces over eighty such documents in full color to reveal some of the ways in which the underlying structure of the universe has been conceived and explained. With examples ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age, it offers a challenging and entertaining exploration of the tension between the rigors of science and the continuing search for cause, certainty, and harmony in the universe.
Mapping The Heavens
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Author : Priyamvada Natarajan
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Mapping The Heavens written by Priyamvada Natarajan and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Science categories.
A theoretical astrophysicist explores the ideas that transformed our knowledge of the universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research—an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe. She not only explains for a wide audience the science behind these essential ideas but also provides an understanding of how radical scientific theories gain acceptance. The formation and growth of black holes, dark matter halos, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the echo of the big bang, the discovery of exoplanets, and the possibility of other universes—these are some of the puzzling cosmological topics of the early twenty-first century. Natarajan discusses why the acceptance of new ideas about the universe and our place in it has never been linear and always contested even within the scientific community. And she affirms that, shifting and incomplete as science always must be, it offers the best path we have toward making sense of our wondrous, mysterious universe. “Part history, part science, all illuminating. If you want to understand the greatest ideas that shaped our current cosmic cartography, read this book.”—Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2011 “A highly readable, insider’s view of recent discoveries in astronomy with unusual attention to the instruments used and the human drama of the scientists.”—Alan Lightman, author of The Accidental Universe and Einstein's Dream
Mapping The Sky
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Author : Suzanne Debarbat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Mapping The Sky written by Suzanne Debarbat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.