A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way / Edward Emerson Barnard ; foreword by Gerald Orin Dobek.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (369 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780511761133 (ebook)
- 523.1/130223 22
- QB857.7 .B37 2011
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Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together, these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in print for the first time, this edition combines both volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It directly replicates Barnard's text, and contains high-resolution images of the original photographic plates and charts, reordered so that they can be seen together. It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama.
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