The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0521363608 / Publisher: Cambridge University Press, November 1988
BCL3 recommends the first edition for the college library core collection. An extravagant productio...
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BCL3 recommends the first edition for the college library core collection. An extravagant production. More than 1100 figures (many quite lovely, and more than half in full color) decorate its glossy 10 pages. Intended to provide general readers with a tour of the cosmos, from the solar system (first half of the volume, treated in wonderful detail) to the outer edge of deep space. English version of a French publication, with authoritatively datapacked text produced by 25 French experts. Glossary, useful index. A book (too big for a lap) which one can open at random and read with immediate interest whatever the poverty/sophistication of one's prior astronomical knowledge. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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