Star Maps History, Artistry, and Cartography /

• Main Author: Kanas, Nick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2019.
• Series: Popular Astronomy,
• Subjects: Astronomy.; History.; Geographical information systems.; Physics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History of Science.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Explore the beauty and awe of the heavens through the rich celestial prints and star atlases offered in this third edition book. The author traces the development of celestial cartography from ancient to modern times, describes the relationships between different star maps and atlases, and relates t...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to Third Edition
• Foreword to First Edition
• Preface to First Edition
• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of abbreviations and acronyms
• Chapter 1: What is a star map?
• Chapter 2: Non-European cosmology and constellation development
• Chapter 3: European cosmology
• Chapter 4: European constellation development
• Chapter 5: Early European star maps
• Chapter 6: The "Big Four" of the Golden Age of imaged star maps
• Chapter 7: Other important star maps of the Golden Age
• Chapter 8: Special topics
• Chapter 9: Mapping the stars in early America
• Chapter 10: The transition to non-imaged star maps
• Chapter 11: Terrestrial and celestial pictorial maps
• Chapter 12: Celestial images in artistic paintings
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Collecting celestial maps and prints
• Appendix B: Supplementary reference catalog
• Appendix C: Indices of major constellation atlases
• Appendix D: The British Library "Kings's" edition
• Appendix E: Glossary
• Index.