Product Overview

• Author: Rees, Martin and Sparrow, Giles
• Language: English
• Book Title: Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas [Hardcover]

A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr’s magnificent Atlas Coelestis that
deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas.
Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr’s magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas
Coelestis, this spectacular guide to the heavens is also a superb introduction
to the fundamentals and history of astronomy. Charting constellations,
planets, comets and moons, Doppelmayr’s Atlas presents the ideas and
discoveries of many famous and influential astronomers, including Copernicus,
Riccioli, Kepler, Newton and Halley, in intricate colour plates that
interweave annotated diagrams and tables with figurative drawings and
ornamental features. Here, you can appreciate the beauty of those exquisite
astronomical and cosmographical plates and comprehend the details, which are
also presented in step-by-step deconstructed form. Astronomer Giles Sparrow
elucidates the scientific ideas inherent in each plate, expertly decoding and
analysing the complex information contained in them and placing Doppelmayr’s
sumptuous Atlas in the context of the ground-breaking discoveries made during
the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. A spectacular, revelatory celestial
compendium to the cosmos, Phaenomena expands on and explains Doppelmayr’s
original, awe-inspiring Atlas and reflects upon its influence on the
development of the science of astronomy to the present day. Read more