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Indlæser... Cosmigraphicsaf Michael Benson
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. SO GOOD. SO BIG. SO EXPENSIVE. SO LATE RETURNING IT TO THE LIBRARY. ( ) From the Introduction, page 10: "Is 'Cosmigraphics' an art or a science book? Yes, and yes. As with science, the role of art was far from its contemporary meaning for most of the history sampled here. Until the seventeenth century or later, the arts and sciences were essentially fused. The great Renaissance painters advanced the science of optics, and were prized for their ability to convey realistic depictions of nature. Many were as much scientists and engineers as they were artists, even if their art is what we most celebrate now. The natural philosophers of the Enlightenment also developed their mimetic abilities, the better to depict natural phenomena. ... "Before the Renaissance and as late as Romanticism, artists were essentially considered craftspeople, artisans involved in a relatively low-ranking guild devoted to embellishing church architecture, manuscripts, and civic buildings. Their names weren’t necessarily important, even if the greatest rose to prominence. … “Just as scientific endeavor wasn’t autonomous from theology and was viewed as a way to comprehend God’s design, so art operated in service as a form of illustration…. “The visual legacy encompassed by ‘Cosmigraphics’ documents the stages of our evolving understanding as a species — a gradually dawning, forever incomplete situational awareness about the cosmos and our position within it, rising across millennia. If there’s one over-arching subject, it’s the enigma of our emergence as conscious beings within an unspeakably vast and cryptic universe, one that doesn’t necessarily guard its secrets willfully — actually it strews them promiscuously around in the form of hints, indications, clues, and manifestations — but doesn’t exactly hand out codebooks either.” https://maryoverton.wikispaces.com/How+Comets+Broke+the+Celestial+Spheres
"While Benson explains that this heavily illustrated, oversize title is not strictly a history of astronomy, his collection of dated astronomical 'maps' from earliest times until today (with most representing the period from 1,000 to 2,000 CE) will beautifully compliment such histories. ...Perfect for astronomy lovers and of great interest to those who enjoy the histories of art, book making, cartography, philosophy, or theology." Four millennia of that mesmerism-made-visible is what journalist, photographer, and astrovisualization scholar Michael Benson explores with great dedication and discernment in Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time — a pictorial catalog of our quest to order the cosmos and grasp our place in it, a sensemaking process defined by what Benson aptly calls our “gradually dawning, forever incomplete situational awareness.” From glorious paintings of the creation myth predating William Blake’s work by centuries to the pioneering galaxy drawing that inspired Van Gogh’s Starry Night to NASA’s maps of the Apollo 11 landing site, the images remind us that the cosmos — like Whitman, like ourselves — is vast and contains multitudes.
Visual history of the discovery of the universe, told through illustrations, maps, diagrams, speculative works of representation, and data visualizations.
Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, Benson chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity's ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time. No library descriptions found. |
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