"In association with The Royal Observatory Greenwich and The Royal Astronomical Society"--page facing title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-367) and index.
Contents:
The order of things: an introduction -- Lens-less, a prelude -- The lens -- Time and space -- Selenographia -- The camera and the telescope -- Man in space -- Eye in space -- The frontier.
Summary:
"A unique pictorial history of astronomical exploration from the earliest prehistoric observatories to the latest satellite images. It illustrates how the development of photography and cartography - the means of documenting other worlds - is linked indelibly to the charting of the heavens, from the first image on a glass plate to the Hubble Space Telescope." Publisher's website.
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