The universe unveiled : instruments and images through history / Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt, Anna Felicity Friedman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press ; 2000Publisher: Chicago, IL : Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, 2000Edition: [1st edition]Description: 152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 052179143X
  • 9780521791434
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Discovering space -- Discovering time -- Understanding the earth -- Understanding the heavens.
Summary: The Universe Unveiled documents the human desire through history to explore and understand our world. Taking a unique approach, it focuses on the instruments, books, and maps people have created to decipher the Universe from the late fifteenth through to the nineteenth century. Throughout, the book is richly illustrated with over 270 full-color images, including those of rare and unusual artifacts from all over the world kept in the world-renowned collection at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago. With clear and informative text, it covers our discovery of Space and Time, and our ever-expanding understanding of Earth and the Heavens, describing in particular the shift from an Earth-centered to a Sun-centered view of the Universe, and the mapping of the stars using telescopes. It also examines the technologies of navigation and of measuring and mapping the Earth, as well as the discovery of ways to keep time.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB86 .S74 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000054797

Includes bibliographical references (page 146) and index.

Discovering space -- Discovering time -- Understanding the earth -- Understanding the heavens.

The Universe Unveiled documents the human desire through history to explore and understand our world. Taking a unique approach, it focuses on the instruments, books, and maps people have created to decipher the Universe from the late fifteenth through to the nineteenth century. Throughout, the book is richly illustrated with over 270 full-color images, including those of rare and unusual artifacts from all over the world kept in the world-renowned collection at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago. With clear and informative text, it covers our discovery of Space and Time, and our ever-expanding understanding of Earth and the Heavens, describing in particular the shift from an Earth-centered to a Sun-centered view of the Universe, and the mapping of the stars using telescopes. It also examines the technologies of navigation and of measuring and mapping the Earth, as well as the discovery of ways to keep time.

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Discovering Space - Discovering Time - Understanding the Heavens

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