Titlebook: Star Maps; History, Artistry, a Nick Kanas Book 2019Latest edition Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Antiquarian celestial maps.Celestial

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Terrestrial and celestial pictorial maps,play an image that conveys information about a place and the location of its various parts? True, but the term has grown to mean something more specific. Graphic artist Nigel Holmes makes the following distinction between what he calls traditional “atlas” maps and their pictorial counterparts: “. ma

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Gum-Disease

对待

The transition to non-imaged star maps,e located in a coordinate system that is current and very precise. What made previous maps appealing were their anthropomorphic and historic qualities (which in past times were relevant to their mapping function), but such features are now seen as so much unnecessary superficial clutter.

世俗

Melanoma

Terrestrial and celestial pictorial maps,ation. It concentrates the readers’ attention on some part of itself, announcing its subject clearly—and pictorially. It is therefore different from the atlas map in that it has a specific message” (Holmes, 1991, p. 13).

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烦人

European constellation development,ment of European constellations, which form the basis of the star maps that will be discussed in subsequent chapters. Like many other things astronomical, we will begin with the ancient Greeks, whose classical 48 constellations greatly influenced star map development and form the core of the system we use today.

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