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Star maps: history, artistry, and cartography
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. This book features reproductions of maps from antiquarian celestial atlases and prints. It includes a legend for each illustration to ex...
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| Lenguaje: | eng |
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Springer
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71669-5 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1991993 |
| Sumario: | 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. This book features reproductions of maps from antiquarian celestial atlases and prints. It includes a legend for each illustration to explain its astronomical and cartographic features. |
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