The Sun
One Thousand Years of Scientific Imagery
$35.99
- Hardcover
120 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2018
Summary
Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, mysterious - the Sun has fascinated people throughout history. This book charts our changing understanding of the Sun through a rich collection of scientific imagery: from from a 10th-century manuscript drawing of an earth-centred universe, to awe-inspiring close-ups of our turbulent star taken by orbiting spacecraft. Each image tells a story of evolving scientific understanding and techniques, as well as the personal dedication of the theologians, artists and astronomers who made them.
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The sun and planets; The solar surface; Eruptions; Sunlight; Eclipsed; Glossary; Further reading.
Published to accompany the special exhibition The Sun: Living with Our Star, running at the Science Museum from 6 October 2018 to 6 May 2019.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785511721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785511726 |
| Author: | Katie Barrett, Harry Cliff |
| Publisher: | Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 210mm |
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Katie Barrett
Dr Katy Barrett is Curator of Art Collections at the Science Museum.Dr Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge and lead curator of the Science Museum’s Sun exhibition.
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