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Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time / Michael Benson.
- Title
- Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time / Michael Benson.
- Author
- Benson, Michael, 1962-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Abrams, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N8217.C62 B46 2014 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | N8217.C62 B46 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gingerich, Owen
- Description
- 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 32 x 25 cm
- Summary
- Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.
- 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.
- Subject
- Cosmology > History > Pictorial works
- Cosmology in art
- Astronomy in art
- Scientific illustration
- Cosmologie > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
- Cosmologie dans l'art
- Astronomie dans l'art
- Illustration scientifique
- scientific illustration (process)
- Cosmology
- Cosmology in art
- Scientific illustration
- Astronomie
- Kunst
- Visualisierung
- Darstellung
- Informationsgrafik
- Weltall Motiv
- Astronomi i konsten
- Vetenskapliga illustrationer
- Universum > bildverk
- Grafisk framställning
- Universe > Pictorial works
- Universe
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- History
- Pictorial works
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Owen Gingerich -- Introduction / Michael Benson -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781419713873
- 1419713876
- LCCN
- 2014930552
- OCLC
- 890393737
- SCSB-10438293
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library