Download A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way by Edward Emerson Barnard,Gerald Orin Dobek PDF

March 27, 2017 | Astronomy

By Edward Emerson Barnard,Gerald Orin Dobek

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of chosen areas of the Milky means used to be initially released in volumes in 1927. jointly, those volumes contained a wealth of data, together with photographic plates of the main fascinating parts of the Milky means, descriptive textual content, charts and knowledge. purely seven hundred copies have been published, making the unique variation a collector's merchandise. Reproduced in print for the 1st time, this variation combines either volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It without delay replicates Barnard's textual content, and includes high-resolution pictures of the unique photographic plates and charts, reordered for you to be obvious jointly. it's also a biography of Barnard and his paintings, a Foreword and Addendum through Gerald Orin Dobek describing the significance of the Atlas and additions to this quantity, and a pull-out part with a mosaic of all 50 plates mixed in one panorama.

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