书名：Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas / 天象：多贝玛亚的天体地图集
定价：660.0
ISBN：9780500024294
作者：Giles Sparrow
版次：1
出版时间：2022-01

内容提要：

书名：Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas / 天象：多贝玛亚的天体地图集

作者：Giles Sparrow

出版：Thames & Hudson，2022年

装帧：精装，256页

语种：英文

尺寸：26.5*36.5 cm

 

 

这部精美著作对约翰·多佩尔迈尔的煌煌巨制《天体图集》进行系统展示，深入解析其精绘版画并探讨其中蕴含的深远影响。

 

本书重点呈现多佩尔迈尔1742年绘制的壮丽宇宙图景《天体图集》，既是引人入胜的天文学入门指南，亦系统梳理了天文学发展史。多佩尔迈尔的图集通过繁复精美的彩色版画，将星座、行星、彗星与卫星的轨迹巧妙融合，不仅凝聚了哥白尼、里乔利、开普勒、牛顿、哈雷等天文学巨擘的智慧结晶，更将注解图表与装饰性图案完美交织。

 

天文学家吉尔斯·斯帕罗以层层解构的方式呈现这些瑰丽版画的精妙细节，精准破译其中蕴含的复杂信息，阐释每幅版画背后的科学理念，并将这部华美图集置于文艺复兴与启蒙时代重大天文发现的历史语境中审视。《天象奇观》既是对多佩尔迈尔原著的拓展与诠释，亦追溯了其对当今天文科学发展的深远影响，堪称一部精彩绝伦的宇宙探索宝典。

 

A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas.

 

Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this spectacular guide to the heavens is also a superb introduction to the fundamentals and history of astronomy.

 

Charting constellations, planets, comets and moons, Doppelmayr's Atlas presents the ideas and discoveries of many famous and influential astronomers, including Copernicus, Riccioli, Kepler, Newton and Halley, in intricate colour plates that interweave annotated diagrams and tables with figurative drawings and ornamental features. Here, you can appreciate the beauty of those exquisite astronomical and cosmographical plates and comprehend the details, which are also presented in step-by-step deconstructed form. Astronomer Giles Sparrow elucidates the scientific ideas inherent in each plate, expertly decoding and analysing the complex information contained in them and placing Doppelmayr's sumptuous Atlas in the context of the ground-breaking discoveries made during the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods.

 

A spectacular, revelatory celestial compendium to the cosmos, Phaenomena expands on and explains Doppelmayr's original, awe-inspiring Atlas and reflects upon its influence on the development of the science of astronomy to the present day.