An edition of Celestial treasury (2001)
Celestial Treasury
From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space
By Figures du Ciel (1998-1999 Bibliothèque nationale de France),Marc Lachièze-Rey,Jean-Pierre Luminet
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Publish Date
July 16, 2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
212
Description:
Descriptive text and four hundred illustrations from the National Library of France's "Figures du Ciel" exhibition present an overview of humankind's attempts to understand and visually represent space, covering models of planetary motion, maps and globes of the sky and universe, creation/origin theories, and mythological traditions.