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- Allows star gazers to discover and pick out 16 lost constellations from distant times in today's night sky
- Supplements the information in companion volume "The Lost Constellations" with even less well known discarded Western constellations of which a written record remains
- Extensively illustrated with figures drawn from classic works of celestial cartography from the 17th-19th centuries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Popular Astronomy (POPULAR)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Celestial Odds and Ends
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The 16 constellations found in this volume fall into one or more of three broad categories: asterims, such as the Big Dipper in Ursa Major; single-sourced constellations introduced on surviving charts by a cartographer perhaps currying the favor of sponsors; and re-brands, new figures meant to displace existing constellations, often for an ideological reason. All of them reveal something unique about the development of humanity's map of the sky.
Authors and Affiliations
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TUCSON, USA
John C. Barentine
About the author
Previously, he was at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, where he was a staff scientist working on the Astrophysical Research Consortium 3.5-meter telescope and as an Observer for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For that work, John was honored in 2007 by the International Astronomical Union, which named the asteroid (14505) Barentine his honor. Now, he is the Program Manager for the International Dark-Sky Association. This work brings him into frequent contact with journalists and includes writing press releases. In 2006, he wrote a press release for an archaeoastronomy poster presented at a meeting of the AAS that went viral and resulted in worldwide media coverage as the “Barentine petroglyph”. In addition to John’s professional work, he writes an astronomy blog on Tumblr (strictlyastronomy.tumblr.com) and maintains an active presence on Twitter.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncharted Constellations
Book Subtitle: Asterisms, Single-Source and Rebrands
Authors: John C. Barentine
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27619-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27618-2Published: 18 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27619-9Published: 04 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, History of Science