Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Sky AtlasCondition: NewEAN: 9781471178931ISBN: 9781471178931Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/17/2019Item Height: 246mmItem Length: 189mmAuthor: Edward Brooke-HitchingLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the UniverseISBN-10: 1471178935Description: 'Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6‘Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] packed with stunning images' Daily MailAfter the enormous international success of The Phantom Atlas and The Golden Atlas, Edward Brooke-Hitching's brilliant book unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during mankind's quest 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, antique instruments and other appealing 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 antiquity. Even stranger are the 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 Mars.As 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 reader.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Sky Atlas
Publication Name: The Sky Atlas
Title: The Sky Atlas
EAN: 9781471178931
ISBN: 9781471178931
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 10/17/2019
Release Year: 2019
Item Height: 246mm
Item Length: 189mm
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Language: English
Subtitle: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe
ISBN-10: 1471178935
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Science Nature & Math
