Star Maps History, Artistry, and Cartography /

This book traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man’s place in the universe and to advances in map-making. Photographs from actual antiquarian celestial atlases and prints, many previously unpublished, enrich the text, and a legend accompanies...

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Hlavní autor: Kanas, Nick. (Autor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Korporativní autor: SpringerLink (Online service)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis, 2007.
Vydání:1st ed. 2007.
Edice:Popular Astronomy,
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On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71669-5
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Obsah:
  • What is a star map?
  • Non-European cosmology and constellation development
  • European cosmology
  • European constellation development
  • Early European star maps
  • The “Big Four” of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps
  • Other important star maps of the Golden Age
  • Special topics
  • Mapping the stars in early America
  • The transition to non-pictorial star maps.