Cosmigraphics
Subtitle: picturing space through time
By: Michael Benson
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781419713873
Subjects: Cosmology in art; Scientific illustration; Astronomy in art; Pictorial works
Description: Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.

Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, Benson chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity's ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Owen Gingerich; title: Introduction; title: Creation; title: Earth; title: The moon; title: The sun; title: The structure of the universe; title: Planets and moons; title: Constellations, the zodiac, and the Milky Way; title: Eclipses and transits; title: Comets and meteors; title: Auroras and atmospheric phenomena.