Celestial treasury : from the music of the spheres to the conquest of space
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Celestial treasury : from the music of the spheres to the conquest of space
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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"First published by Bibliothèque nationale de France and Editions du Seuil, Paris, under the title 'Figures du Ciel'"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-207) and index
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内容説明
Throughout history, the mysterious dark skies above us have inspired our imaginations in countless ways, influencing our endeavours in science and philosophy, religion, literature and art. Celestial Treasury is a truly beautiful book showing the richness of astronomical theories and illustrations in Western civilization through the ages, exploring their evolution, and comparing ancient and modern throughout. From Greek verse, mediaeval manuscripts and Victorian poetry to spacecraft photographs and computer-generated star charts, the unprecedented wealth of these portrayals is quite breathtaking. How did philosophers and scientists try to explain the order which seems to govern celestial motion? How did geometers and artists measure and map the skies? How many different answers have been proposed for the most fundamental of all questions: When and how did our world come about? Who inhabits the Heavens - gods, angels or extraterrestrials? The answers to these questions can be found among these stunning pages.
目次
- Part I. Celestial Harmony: 1. Geometry and the cosmos
- 2. The celestial hierarchy
- 3. The grandeur of space
- 4. Finite or infinite?
- 5. The structure of the world
- 6. Celestial music
- 7. World systems
- Part II. Uranometry: 8. Mapping the sky
- 9. Naming the stars
- 10. The development of celestial atlases
- 11. The depths of space
- Part III. The Creation: 12. From myth to myth
- 13. The metamorphosis of chaos
- 14. Time and creation
- 15. The Creator
- 16. The order of creation
- 17. The date of creation
- 18. The theory of evolution
- 19. The Big Bang
- 20. A modern creation
- Part IV. Creatures of the Sky: 21. Humanity beneath the sky
- 22. The sky in humanity
- 23. Humanity in the sky
- 24. The worlds in the sky.
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