
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Author: Giles Sparrow; Fore. Martin Rees
ISBN: 9780500024294
Format: Hardback
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First published in Nuremberg in 1742, Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's Atlas Coelestis encapsulated the astronomical knowledge of his day in 30 magnificent hand-coloured engravings. Reproduced here with explanatory text by Giles Sparrow and an introduction by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, they demonstrate the theories of Copernicus, Kepler and Halley, the orbits of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the movement of comets, and the constellations beyond our solar system.