The Resource Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas
Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas
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The item Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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. This book features reproductions of maps from antiquarian celestial atlases and prints. It includes a legend for each illustration to explain its astronomical and cartographic features
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxix, 382 pages, [76] pages of plates)
- Contents
-
- Front Matter; What is a star map?; Non-European cosmology and constellation development; European cosmology; European constellation development; Early European star maps; The "Big Four" of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps; Other important star maps of the Golden Age; Special topics; Mapping the stars in early America; The transition to non-pictorial star maps; Back Matter
- Isbn
- 9780387716695
- Label
- Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography
- Title
- Star maps
- Title remainder
- history, artistry, and cartography
- Statement of responsibility
- Nick Kanas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. This book features reproductions of maps from antiquarian celestial atlases and prints. It includes a legend for each illustration to explain its astronomical and cartographic features
- Cataloging source
- GW5XE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kanas, Nick
- Dewey number
-
- 523.8
- 523.80223
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QB65
- LC item number
- .K36 2007eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Stars
- Stars
- Stars
- Astronomy
- Constellations
- Label
- Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Front Matter; What is a star map?; Non-European cosmology and constellation development; European cosmology; European constellation development; Early European star maps; The "Big Four" of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps; Other important star maps of the Golden Age; Special topics; Mapping the stars in early America; The transition to non-pictorial star maps; Back Matter
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxix, 382 pages, [76] pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780387716695
- Lccn
- 2007926829
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- SPR191465495
- ocn191465495
- Label
- Star maps : history, artistry, and cartography, Nick Kanas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Front Matter; What is a star map?; Non-European cosmology and constellation development; European cosmology; European constellation development; Early European star maps; The "Big Four" of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps; Other important star maps of the Golden Age; Special topics; Mapping the stars in early America; The transition to non-pictorial star maps; Back Matter
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxix, 382 pages, [76] pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780387716695
- Lccn
- 2007926829
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- SPR191465495
- ocn191465495
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