Free read ´ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ï Edward Brooke-Hitching
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 uest 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 antiue instruments and other a Absolutnie przepi knie przestawiona historia astronomii Pe na ciekawych informacji i zachwycaj cych map nieba
Summary The Sky Atlas
He 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 MarsAs 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 read Amazing beautiful worth reading again and again
Free read ´ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ï Edward Brooke-Hitching
Ppealing 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 antiuity Even stranger are t A fascinating survey of the history of astronomy with a focus on astronomical image making
IncredibleMy infant brain History Space Science Pictures OoooooooooooAfter pursuing a career in art I forgot my LOVE of space astronomy I backed out of the amount of maths and lack of story physics would give me but this book just won
Absolutnie przepięknie przestawiona historia astronomii Pełna ciekawych informacji i zachwycających map nieba
Arguably the most beautiful book I have ever read
A fascinating survey of the history of astronomy with a focus on astronomical image making
A book of beautiful maps of the stars through the centuries Informative and interesting but the maps themselves are if you will pardon the pun the stars
Amazing beautiful worth reading again and again
If you love history science or the history is science this book is for youAs the book sums up in 1900 we thought ours to be
Absolutely beautiful The perfect coffee table book to dip in and out of