Star Maps

Author : Nick Kanas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461409175

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Star Maps by Nick Kanas Pdf

Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.

Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781797202198

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The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching Pdf

The Sky Atlas unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during humankind's quest to map the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography—a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books—as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogs, antique instruments, and other 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, ancient aliens, mythological animals, and rampaging spirits. • Packed with celestial maps, illustrations, and stories of places, people, and creatures that different cultures throughout history have observed or imagined in the heavens • Readers are 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 antiquity. • A gorgeous book that delights stargazers and map lovers alike With thrilling stories and gorgeous artwork, this remarkable atlas explores our fascination with the sky across time and cultures to form an extraordinary chronicle of cosmic imagination and discovery. The Sky Atlas is a wonderful book for map lovers, history buffs, and stargazers, but also for those who are intrigued by the many wonderful and bizarre ways in which humans have sought to understand the cosmos and our place in it. • A unique map book that expands beyond the terrestrial and into the celestial • A wonderful book for map lovers, obscure-history fans, mythology buffs, and astrology and astronomy lovers • Great for those who enjoyed What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky by Kelsey Oseid, Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, and Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will by Judith Schalansky

Author : Nick Kanas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387716688

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Star Maps by Nick Kanas Pdf

The beauty and awe generated by the celestial void captures our imagination and delights our aesthetic sense. Antiquarian map societies are prospering, and celestial maps are now viewed as a specialty of map collecting. 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. The book describes the development and relationships between different sky maps and atlases as well as demonstrating contemporary cosmological ideas, constellation representations, and cartographic advances.

Author : I.M. Levitt,Roy K. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780671791872

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Star Maps for Beginners by I.M. Levitt,Roy K. Marshall Pdf

The author's maps, which divide the sky into quadrants, and explanations of the constellations are designed to simplify study for the amateur astronomer.

Author : Albert Jansen
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781775842880

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Star Maps for Southern Africa by Albert Jansen Pdf

The first star guide of its kind in the southern hemisphere, this book features 96 star maps for observing the southern skies with the naked eye, standard binoculars or a small telescope. Divided into 12 sets, the maps cover all eight principal views of the sky (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W and NW) for each month of the year and for different times during each night. For each set of star maps, the reader is alerted to prominent stars and constellations visible during that period of viewing. Terms and concepts are explained and frequently asked questions addressed. Star Maps for Southern Africa provides thorough and extensive coverage of our night skies, enabling readers to track stars and related spectacles throughout the year. It will remain relevant for a lifetime.

Author : Aaron Jaffe,Jonathan Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351916875

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Modernist Star Maps by Aaron Jaffe,Jonathan Goldman Pdf

Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.

Author : Annette S. Lee,William Wilson (Artist),Carl Gawboy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Constellations
ISBN : 0615986781

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Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation Guidebook by Annette S. Lee,William Wilson (Artist),Carl Gawboy Pdf

A constellation guidebook focusing on Ojibwe Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the Ojibwe constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars. Written by four native authors: Annette Lee, William Wilson, Jeff Tibbetts, Carl Gawboy. Accompanies the "Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan" - Ojibwe Sky Star Map created by Annette Lee, William Wilson, and Carl Gawboy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Imaginary places
ISBN : 9780743437707

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Star Trek Star Charts by Anonim Pdf

For those who ever wondered just where the Klingon Homeworld is or how close it is to Earth, "Star Charts" provides fans with this information and more--including the routes of each of the ships featured in all the "Star Trek" series. Full-color photos throughout. 4 gatefolds.

Author : Michael Perryman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642116025

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The Making of History's Greatest Star Map by Michael Perryman Pdf

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers – and considerable resources – have been devoted to measuring their positions and motions with ever increasing accuracy. And in the last two decades of the 20th century, the European Space Agency developed and launched the Hipparcos satellite, around which this account revolves, to carry out these exacting measurements from space. What has prompted these remarkable developments? Why have governments been persuaded to fund them? What are scientists learning from astronomy's equivalent of the Human Genome Project? This book traces the subject's history, explains why such enormous efforts are considered worthwhile, and interweaves these with a first-hand insight into the Hipparcos project, and how big science is conducted at an international level. The involvement of amateur astronomers, and the Hipparcos contributions to climate research, ‘death stars' passing close to the Sun, and the search for extra-solar planets and even intelligent life itself, are some of the surprising facets of this unusual space mission.

Author : Edward Skinner King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015080189049

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The Pathfinder Star Maps by Edward Skinner King Pdf

Author : William R. Fix
Publisher : Mayflower Assoc
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0706410661

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Star Maps by William R. Fix Pdf

Author : Heather Couper,Nigel Henbest
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756656003

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Encyclopedia of Space by Heather Couper,Nigel Henbest Pdf

Blast off into space to discover the galaxies and beyond with the new edition of this out-of-this-world reference Send your child on an amazing journey into space. They'll see the Hubble telescope orbiting the Earth, discover the birth of our solar system and follow the search for life on Mars. Packed with practical tips for the amateur astronomer, spectacular images from space, detailed charts and fantastic facts. Perfect for home or school, there are even instructions on building a simple telescope! Supports Common Core State Standards.

Author : Johannes Andersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792355563

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Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 11B by Johannes Andersen Pdf

Since 1967, the main scientific events of the General Assemblies of the International Astronomical Union have been published in the separate series, Highlights of Astronomy. The present Volume 11 presents the major scientific presentations made at the XXIIIrd General Assembly, August 18-30, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. The two volumes (11A+B) contain the texts of the three Invited Discourses as well as the proceedings or extended summaries of the 21 Joint Discussions and two Special Sessions held during the General Assembly.

Author : Zeyn Joukhadar
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501169052

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The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar Pdf

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” (The New York Times Book Review). This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever. Following alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, The Map of Salt and Stars is the “magical and heart-wrenching” (Christian Science Monitor) story of one girl telling herself the legend of another and learning that, if you listen to your own voice, some things can never be lost.

Author : John Gilbert Kellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Azimuth
ISBN : CUB:P101132509002

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Alt-azimuth Star Maps for Use with Sextant and Pelorus in Latitudes 0̊ to 60̊ by John Gilbert Kellar Pdf