Looking Up: An Illustrated Guide to Telescopes

Kramer, Jacob

ISBN 10: 1912497689 / ISBN 13: 9781912497683

Editore: Flying Eye Books, 2021

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1912497689I3N10

Riassunto:

Looking Up is a celebration of telescopes - their shapes, sizes, and the science they enable. Open your eyes to the wonder of the skies!

All over the world, people have built fantastic structures for looking up into the sky. These telescopes are not just scientific instruments -- they are monuments to curiosity and collaboration. In this book readers are introduced to the amazing spectrum of light, and the diverse shapes and methods used to study it.
Clear, inventive language meets with playful yet graphic imagery in this stunning non-fiction title.

Informazioni sull'autore: Jacob Kramer graduated from Harvard with a degree in Visual & Environmental Studies, where he joined of the Student Astronomers club and studied physics with Nobel laureate Roy J. Glauber. His passion for large telescopes has taken him as far as Maunakea in Hawai'i. Jacob lives in Somerville, MA, and is the author of Noodlephant and Okapi Tale (Enchanted Lion Books). LOOKING UP is his debut non-fiction book.

Stephanie Scholz studied drawing and print making at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, and the Accademia die Belli Arti in Bologna. She has made illustrations for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The New Yorker, The Economist, and Die Zeit, among others.
 
 

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Looking Up: An Illustrated Guide to ...
Casa editrice: Flying Eye Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Hardcover
Illustratore: Scholz, Stephanie
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket