Atlases of the starry sky. Abramova Oksana Viktorovna

, just as the ancient Greeks “applied” figures in the heavenly sphere and gave them the names from mythology and life, astronomers and cartographers of the New Age began to transfer their ideas about the universe to paper. The history of the atlases of the starry sky resembles a ball woven from science, politics, religion, art and even commercial interests.

After reading this book, you will learn how astronomers and cartographers “overlapped” the sky, renaming the constellations in honor of reigning houses , Christian saints and virtues; In what ways the publishers tried to attract the reader and why, for the sake of the beauty of the atlases, sacrificed their scientific component; How did the copyright issue in the collection “The Mirror of Urania” gave rise to a riddle, unraveled almost two centuries later? And 29 illustrations from the treatise "Harmony of the Macrocosm" Andreas Cellarius will give you an idea of ​​how consistency and harmony in the universe in the Golden Age of Cartography.