Synopses & Reviews
Tattoo art and practice has seen radical changes in the 21st century, as its popularity has exploded. An expanding number of tattoo artists have been mining the past for lost traditions and innovating with new technology. An enormous diversity of styles, genres, and techniques has emerged, ranging from geometric blackwork to vibrant, painterly styles, and from hand-tattooed works to machine-produced designs.
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With over 700 stunning color illustrations, this volume considers historical and contemporary tattoo practices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Each section, dedicated to a specific geographic region, features fascinating text by tattoo experts that explores the history and traditions native to that area as well as current styles and trends. The World Atlas of Tattoo also tracks the movement of styles from their indigenous settings to diasporic communities, where they have often been transformed into creative, multicultural, hybrid designs. The work of 100 notable artists from around the globe is showcased in this definitive reference on a widespread and intriguing art practice.
Review
"A new book published this month by Cambridge University Press is showing off one of the greatest collections in the world of antique instruments of astronomy...Cambridge University Press saw the collection as an array of spectacular objects worthy of being showcased for a wider audience in a slick, full-color book, The Universe Unveiled." Chicago Tribune"This book offers a feast for the eye and for the mind, encompassing hundreds of the finest drawings, engravings, rare books, and scientific instruments from the collection of the Adler Planetarium, on the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan...the book is sumptuously reproduced, with irregularly shaped objects cut out and masked to make the book a design delight." The Key Reporter, publication of Phi Beta Kappa"This is a lovely, high-quality picture book showing the instruments that astronomers have used, many of them since long before the invention of the telescope." Naples, Florida News"The material of the book is beautifully presented with an impressive supply of diagrams, engravings, and photographs on every page. THe reproductions are first rate and the layout is attractively done. It is a visual feast for anyone interested in the history of science and the instruments by which it progressed." \ s Rittenhouse"...beautiful book...would make a very attractive gift..." The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada"The book is lavishly illustrated, with more than 250 colour pictures of the most accurate and beautiful instruments since the late 15th century, accompanied by a taut but readable prose aimed at the layman." The Globe and Mail"Over a dozen [pages] are full-page photgraphs of excellent quality...[T]he book is full of pictures and descriptions of such things as armillary spheres and astrolabes--instruments I have heard of but not seen until this book." IEEE Spectrum"This richly illustrated book describes many of the more beautiful and unusual examples, as well as how they were used to explore the Earth and sky. Readers are presented with detailed views of the exquisite craftmanship of centuries ago." Sky and Telescope."stunniing...valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of scientific investigation about the universe...The University is also a testament to science as a creative activity. The exquisite illustrations and the beautiful instruments portray science as far more than a dry reaction of facts- rather as an integral part of human society with roots deep in the past...Should anyone doubt this attitude, have him or her spend a few hours with this lovely book. It is a valuable resource for teachers and students alike." Science Activities"This is a lovely book filled with crisp images of beautiful instruments, diagrams, and maps." Meteorites &Planetary Science
Synopsis
The Universe Unveiled documents the human desire through history to explore and understand our world. Taking a unique approach, it focuses on the instruments, books, and maps people have created to decipher the Universe from the late fifteenth through to the nineteenth century. Throughout, the book is richly illustrated with over 270 full-color images, with rare and unusual artifacts from all over the world kept in the world-renowned collection at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago. With clear and informative text, it will delight readers of all levels.
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The search for understanding creates more than answers; it also produces instruments, books, maps, and other tools made and used by those seeking knowledge. The Universe Unveiled uniquely focuses on these artifacts and devices resulting from the attempts to decipher the Universe from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century. Beautiful, full-color photographs capture these extremely rare and sometimes unusual curios. Beginning with the discovery of ways to keep time, The Universe Unveiled depicts the shift from an Earth-centered understanding of the Universe to a Sun-centered view, the mapping of the stars, and the ever-expanding knowledge of the heavens using telescopes. It also examines the developing technologies of navigation and of the measuring and mapping of the Earth. In addition to rare European curios, the book is illustrated with non-Western and American works. With more than 250 full-color images, this unique volume will delight the inventive as well as the curious.
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A richly illustrated and very readable account of the instruments, books, and maps astronomers have created through the ages to decipher the Universe.
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A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo from ancient times to today
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This comprehensive study of the vast array of styles and most significant practitioners of tattoo features 700 stunning color illustrations and is the definitive reference on this widespread art practice.
About the Author
Bruce Stephenson is Curator and Director of the History of Astronomy Department at Chicago's Adler Planetarium &Astronomy Museum. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago, where he holds a position of visiting scholar in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is the author of Kepler's Physical Astronomy and of The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy, both published by Princeton University Press. He belongs to numerous professional organizations relating to the history of science, astronomy and scientific instrumentation. He is currently studying the metallurgical characteristics of astrolabes in a high-energy X-ray beam at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.Marvin Bolt is Associate Curator of the History of Astronomy Department at Chicago's Adler Planetarium &Astronomy Museum. He has a Ph.D. in Intellectual History and History &Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame, where he concurrently holds the position of visiting scholar. In addition to working on the Adler's catalogue of optical instruments and publishing his dissertation on Sir John Herschel, he continues to research the social context of 19th century astronomy. He is a member of the History of Science Society and the William Herschel Society.Anna Friedman is Assistant Curator of the History of Astronomy Department at Chicago's Adler Planetarium &Astronomy Museum. She has an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, and a B.F.A. in Painting, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written Awestruck by the Majesty of the Heavens (Chicago: Adler Planetarium &Astronomy Museum, 1997) and is currently writing the Adler's catalogue of star charts.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Discovering space; 3. Discovering time; 4. Understanding the Earth; 5. Understanding the heavens; Conclusion; Glossary; List of images; Index.