Star Maps

History, Artistry, and Cartography

Nick Kanas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2007
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-71668-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The beauty and awe generated by the celestial void captures our imagination and delights our aesthetic sense. Antiquarian map societies are prospering, and celestial maps are now viewed as a specialty of map collecting. This book 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. Photographs from actual antiquarian celestial atlases and prints, many previously unpublished, enrich the text. The book describes the development and relationships between different sky maps and atlases as well as demonstrating contemporary cosmological ideas, constellation representations, and cartographic advances.

Autor

Nick Kanas, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been a member of the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers since 1978 and has collected and researched antiquarian celestial books, atlases, and prints for nearly 25 years. He is a member of several map collector societies and has lectured on the history of celestial cartography at scientific and non-scientific meetings of organizations such as the Sydney (Australia) Observatory, the 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography, and the California Map Society. He also has written articles on this subject for a number of journals and magazines, including Sky & Telescope, Mercury, Imago Mundi, Mercator's World, and the Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society. Professor Kanas has written over 160 professional articles and 3 books, including, with D. Manzey, Space Psychology and Psychiatry (Kluwer/Springer, 2003), which won the 2004 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Book Award. He also won Honorable Mention in the 2006 Boeing/Griffith Observer Science Writing Contest for his astronomy article on "Sacrobosco's De Sphaera" (which was published in the astronomy magazine Griffith Observer, sponsored by the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles).

Inhalt

Introduction.- Non-European cosmology and constellations.- European systems of cosmology.- Constellation development.- Early star maps.- The "Big 4" of the Golden Age (1600-1800) and their spin-offs.- Other important star atlases of the Golden Age.- Special topics (e.g., celestial globes, astronomical instruments, solar system, etc.).- Early American influences.- The transition to non-pictorial star atlases.- Appendix: Collecting celestial maps and prints.- Glossary.- Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Popular Astronomy
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Praxis Books
• Zusatzinfo: 131 black & white illustrations, 76 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 174 x 244 mm
• Gewicht: 736 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-387-71668-8 / 0387716688
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-71668-8 / 9780387716688
• Zustand: Neuware