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Picture This!: Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space
Simon Spurrier
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Description for Picture This!: Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 150 black & white illustrations, 70 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGC; PGS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210. .
Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put scale extraterrestrial objects side by side with objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example, study the pictures of Earth floating above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto's CN Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later ... Read more
Astronomical concepts can be truly hard to comprehend, especially those of planetary sizes and distances from Earth and from each other. These concepts are made more comprehensible by the group of illustrations in this book, which put scale extraterrestrial objects side by side with objects on Earth we can more easily relate to. For example, study the pictures of Earth floating above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the asteroid Itokawa resting beside Toronto's CN Tower. These mind-bending images bring things better into perspective and will help you understand the size and scale of our Solar System. In later ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
718g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319249056
SKU
V9783319249056
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Simon Spurrier
Michael Carroll is a space artist and science writer. He has done commissioned work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world, including National Geographic, Time, Asimov's Science Fiction, Smithsonian, Astronomy, and others. One of his paintings was flown aboard Russia's MIR space station in 1995. Recent murals include the ... Read more
Reviews for Picture This!: Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space
The premise of the book is to put the Universe to scale using more-easily-understood analogies. And where comparison pictures, like that on the cover, are used, this premise works well. ... Overall, this is a book packed with information and many good illustrations. ... it does present much of current astronomical knowledge in an original way. (Debra Holton, The ... Read more