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 Photographs from actual antiquarian celestial atlases and prints, many previously unpublished, enrich the text, and a legend accompanies...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis,
2007.
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| Édition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Collection: | Popular Astronomy,
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71669-5 |
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Table des matières:
- 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.