Titlebook: Star Maps; History, Artistry, a Nick Kanas Book 20122nd edition Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Ancient cosmology.Antiquarian

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Early European star maps,s reached their zenith in terms of accuracy and beauty, especially during the Golden Age of celestial cartography in the 17th and 18th Centuries. But prior to this time, especially in the 16th Century, there were a number of ‘‘firsts’’ that set the stage for the Golden Age, and this will form the subject of this chapter.

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Indices of major constellation atlases, have listed them using regular script rather than italics in order to simplify the presentation. Text found on the plates is underlined; otherwise, the plates are identified by the major constellations depicted. Notes are in brackets. The spelling reflects that used in the atlas.

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anets, moons, and comets.Includes new sections on colonial c.Until the publication of the first edition of ‘Star Maps,‘ books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sk

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Non-European cosmology and constellation development,l systems. Since printed star maps are essentially a European development, I will go into much detail in the next chapter about the thread of cosmological development that began with the classical Greeks as background for an understanding of what is shown on these maps.

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Special topics,er topics pertain to non-stellar bodies in the heavens that are mapped in antiquarian prints, such as the components of our solar system and deep-sky objects. Finally, we will discuss frontispieces and title pages.

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Color plate gallery,each figure. Care has been taken to match the colors shown in these plates with those in the original prints from which they were photographed. Through these efforts, it is hoped that the reader will not only gain a better understanding of what the images are trying to convey but also of their beauty and artistry.