ResearchGuides: Art and Science: Under the Microscope and Into Space

Picturing the Universe

Coloring the Universe by Travis A. Rector; Kimberly K. Arcand; Megan K. Watzke
Call Number: 2nd Floor TR713 .R43 2015
ISBN: 9781602232730
Publication Date: 2015-11-15
The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images through History by Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt and Anna Friedman
Call Number: QB86 .S74 2000
View more than 270 images of instruments, books and maps of the evolving understanding of the universe between the late 15th through 19th centuries.
Images of the Universe by Edited by Carole Stott
Call Number: QB 43.2.I63 1991
Publication Date: 1991
Read articles by sixteen leading amateur and professional astronomers, with special emphasis the visual portrayal of the universe.
The Mapping of the Heavens by Peter Whitfield
Call Number: QB15 .W46 1995 quarto
Publication Date: 1995
Explore the images created by artists and astronomers to represent the pattern of the stars in the sky.

Mite, from Robert Hooke, Micrographia, 1665.

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Centaurus, standing over the Southern Cross, engaging Lupus the Wolf. Coelum stellatum by Christoph Semler, Magdeburg, 1731.
Out of this World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas

Opera inedita. -- Göttingen: Johann. Christian. Dieterich, 1775.

Star map of the constellation Cygnus the Swan from A Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson, 1822.