A Walk through the Heavens - Milton D. Heifetz, Wil Tirion

A Walk through the Heavens

A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends
Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
1996
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-46980-7 (ISBN)
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Take a journey across the starlit skies with A Walk through the Heavens. With magical illustrations and simplified constellation maps, this handbook is ideal for the young astronomer without binoculars. The ancient legends behind the constellations are also beautifully retold.
A Walk through the Heavens is a guide to the pathways of the sky. It contains unique, simplified maps of the constellations and instructions on how to measure their sizes and the separations between them. Using this information you can find the constellations very easily and take a mind's eye journey from one constellation to its neighbours. The ancient myths and legends surrounding the constellations are retold, enriching our understanding of how historical peoples saw the awe-inspiring spectacle of a sky sprinkled with stars. Magically illustrated by Wil Tirion, this book does not assume that the reader has binoculars, and is ideal to inspire the young astronomer just starting out on a journey across the starlit skies.

Introduction; Part I. Measuring Distances in the Sky: The brightness of stars; Life in the Heavens; Instructions for the use of the atlas; Four seasonal star maps; Part II. A Walk Through The Heavens; 1. Starting from the Big Dipper; 2. Starting from Orion; Part III. Legends of the Heavens; Part IV. Circumpolar Constellations: Brightness test; Binocular sights; List of constellations; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.6.1996
Zusatzinfo 50 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 246 mm
Gewicht 218 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 0-521-46980-5 / 0521469805
ISBN-13 978-0-521-46980-7 / 9780521469807
Zustand Neuware
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