Kanas Star Maps

History, Artistry, and Cartography
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71669-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 382 Seiten

Reihe: Popular Astronomy

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 Photographs from actual antiquarian celestial atlases and prints, many previously unpublished, enrich the text.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.

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kanas, Nick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Foreword;14
3;Preface;16
4;Figures;23
5;Color sections;28
6;Tables;29
7;Abbreviations and acronyms;30
8;1 What is a star map?;31
9;2 Non-European cosmology and constellation development;47
10;3 European cosmology;78
11;4 European constellation development;135
12;5 Early European star maps;160
13;6 The "Big Four" of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps;177
14;7 Other important star maps of the Golden Age;217
15;8 Special topics;250
16;9 Mapping the stars early in America;295
17;10 The transition to non-pictorial star maps;315
18;Appendix A: Collecting celestial maps and prints;345
19;Appendix B: Supplementary reference catalog;352
20;Appendix C: Indices of major constellation atlases;377
21;Appendix D: The British Library "King's" edition;386
22;Appendix E: Glossary;387
23;Index;394