The Atlas of the Universe

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Earth and Sky exhaustively explored and mapped in Rand iV19Naiiv
IHE RIUS OF THE UniUERSE
The first ever atlas of the entire universe, written and researched with the special help of NASA and from other international sources by Patrick Wloore, O.B.E., with a Foreword by Professor Sir Bernard Loveil, O.B.E., F.R.S., and an Epilogue by Dr Thomas 0. Paine, Administrator NASA
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From the Foreword by Sir Bernard Lovell:
"New worlds are charted by new atlases. Each memorable new atlas in the history of the world has been called forth by the discoveries of that era.
"The Atfas of the Universe is a new record of the modern age of
discovery____Never before has it been possible to write an Atlas of this |
kind because the revolutionary... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Earth and Sky exhaustively explored and mapped in Rand iV19Naiiv
IHE RIUS OF THE UniUERSE
The first ever atlas of the entire universe, written and researched with the special help of NASA and from other international sources by Patrick Wloore, O.B.E., with a Foreword by Professor Sir Bernard Loveil, O.B.E., F.R.S., and an Epilogue by Dr Thomas 0. Paine, Administrator NASA
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2 Introduction: The Obseruotion ond EKplorotion of Spote j
2 ntlos of the Eorth from Spoce >
ntlos of Earth's moon g ntlos of the Solor System g ntlos of the Stors
7EplloguB:Dr Ihomos 0. Paine,
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From the Foreword by Sir Bernard Lovell:
"New worlds are charted by new atlases. Each memorable new atlas in the history of the world has been called forth by the discoveries of that era.
"The Atfas of the Universe is a new record of the modern age of
discovery____Never before has it been possible to write an Atlas of this |
kind because the revolutionary strides In bur knowledge which have | made its publication possible have almost all come about in the last ten . years and some of them - the rediscovery by man of Earth from space, ^ the landing on the moon and the charting of the planet Mars - only at the end of that decade,
"The Atlas of the Universe presents all these exciting discoveries in a new and ambitious form. The beauty of Its design and execution is ¦ ! matched by the encyclopedic collection of Information to provide a book of great contemporary importance. '
"I commend The Atlas of the Universe to yourig and old " From the Epilogue by Dr Thomas O. Paine:
"Space travel has opened a new age of exploration for our generation that will continue for all future generations, ^
"The Atlas of the Universe incorporates the results of hew knowledge made available by the first extra-terrestrial.explorfefis-.Weof the National-Aeronautics and Space Administration a>e gratifled 'that disqöveries made in our program have contributed to this Compilation, And we are also delighted with the Atlas's beautiful pprttayaljitHe unllrhited challenges of the vast terrae incogr)itae \n spacS thgiffe böTOre bs,'" i
By Patrick Moore, O.B.E., with a Foreword by Professor Sir Bernard Lovell, O.B.E., F.R.S., and an Epilogue by Dr Thomas 0. Paine, Administrator NASA Over 1300 maps, diagrams, charts and photographs in full color, two color, and black and white
For thousands of years men have been mapping the Earth and the universe. Ptolemy of Alexandria drew 8 chart of the Mediterranean world, and looked out among the stars. Today voyages of discovery, both by travelers across the Earth and by astronomers with their telescopes, have made us realize for the first time the immensity of the universe in which we all live and the varied nature of our own world. Only now has it been possible to produce an Atlas which incorporates the vast new sum of knowledge of the space age. In size, scope and ambition the Rand M9Nally i4r/a5 of the Universe is truly without precedent in the history of mapping.
There is no part of the world, from the heights of Everest to the ocean depths, which remains unexplored today. The Earth has been surveyed from space, and has been seen in its true guise of a planet among planets. Astronauts have been to the Moon, and space vehicles have flown past the challenging Red Planet, Mars. Far away in the universe, radio signals have come to us, telling us that strange, powerful systems exist in those remote regions where even our optical telescopes cannot penetrate.
All this thrilling new knowledge has been brought together in this new Rand MCNally of the Universe. It is an Atlas of a kind which has not been compiled before, because it could not have been attempted before. The events which have made it possible have occurred only during the last few exciting months of the new era. Beginning with the Earth, the Atlas includes diagrams, pictures and -maps of all kinds relating breathtaking views of the world obtained from space vehicles to conventional Earth-mapping techniques, the structure of Earth, and the important new area of Earth resources studies. Much of this material is new; it has been made generously available by special arrangement with the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, who have given their full support and collaboration with the book. Moving out from the Earth, The Atlas of the Universe includes a complete Atlas of the Moon; the Orbiter photographs, together with those of the astronauts who have trod the lunar surface, build up a picture of a world which is as fascinating as it is stark. Then come maps of our planetary neighbors: Mars, where men may land within the next decade or two; enigmatical Venus, hidden by its mantle of obscuring cloud, and charted ably by radar techniques: even the moons of Jupiter, first seen by Galileo more than 350 years ago. Leaving the Solar System, the reader is guided out to the stars; The Atlas of the Universe includes detailed maps and charts of the suns and galaxies of space, clear without being crowded, detailed without being exhaustive. Finally we are charted to the outermost limits of the universe itself. The Rand MCNally Atlas of the Universe is illustrated by a host of magnificent color photographs, together with maps on many projections and a vast number of explanatory line drawings and diagrams in color. It will become the standard guide to the thrilling story of our expanding knowledge of the expanding universe for at least the next three decades of this century. No one, young or old, will be able to follow the unfolding story of the exploration of space without it. Vissza