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Sun and moon : a story of astronomy, photography and cartography
- Title
- Sun and moon : a story of astronomy, photography and cartography / Mark Holborn.
- Author
- Holborn, Mark, 1949-
- Publication
- London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFG 20-181 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 |
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- Description
- 373 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "A unique pictorial history of astronomical exploration from the earliest prehistoric observatories to the latest satellite images. It illustrates how the development of photography and cartography - the means of documenting other worlds - is linked indelibly to the charting of the heavens, from the first image on a glass plate to the Hubble Space Telescope."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Illustrated works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- Prepared in collaboration with the Royal Observatory Greenwich and the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-367) and index.
- Contents
- The order of things: an introduction -- Lens-less, a prelude -- The lens -- Time and space -- Selenographia -- The camera and the telescope -- Man in space -- Eye in space -- The frontier.
- Call Number
- JFG 20-181
- ISBN
- 9780714876566
- 0714876569
- LCCN
- 2018469795
- OCLC
- 1090442122
- Author
- Holborn, Mark, 1949- author.
- Title
- Sun and moon : a story of astronomy, photography and cartography / Mark Holborn.
- Publisher
- London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-367) and index.
- Local Note
- ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. 12.5" X 12".
- Added Author
- Royal Observatory, Greenwich, issuing body.Royal Astronomical Society, issuing body.
- Research Call Number
- JFG 20-181