Celestial treasury
by Figures du Ciel (1998-1999 Bibliothèque nationale de France), Marc Lachièze-Rey, Jean-Pierre Luminet
Cosmology in artExhibitionsHarmony of the spheresCosmologyHistoryPopular astronomyScienceScience/Mathematics
Descriptive text and four hundred illustrations from the National Library of France's "Figures du Ciel" exhibition present an overview of humankind's attempts to understand and visually represent space, covering models of planetary motion, maps and globes of the sky and universe, creation/origin theories, and mythological traditions.
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