The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths and... - Brooke-Hitching, Edward
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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- Book Title
- The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Un
- Genre
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
- ISBN
- 9781471178931
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'Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 'Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] packed with stunning images' Daily Mail After 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13
9781471178931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10046687374
Product Key Features
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
The Sky Atlas: the Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
246 mm
Item Width
189 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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