Description
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781682682111
Year: 2018
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Description:
Tales of the forty-eight classical constellations have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present. Compiled from literature spanning from Homer to Claudius Ptolemy, with illustrations and star charts reconstructed from ancient sources, Ancient Skies immerses the reader in the world of ancient cosmology and constellation mapping.
ISBN: 9781682682111
Year: 2018
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Description:
Tales of the forty-eight classical constellations have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present. Compiled from literature spanning from Homer to Claudius Ptolemy, with illustrations and star charts reconstructed from ancient sources, Ancient Skies immerses the reader in the world of ancient cosmology and constellation mapping.