The Long View (2013): The true-and vast-complexity of the universe was captured in this vista recorded by a pair of automated telescopes, one in the U.S. John Huchra, Thomas Jarrett 2Mass Collaboration, U. The sun, planets and constellations are seen orbiting the Earth, but in the lower right hand corner, Cellarius does acknowledge an alternative theory: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe’s model, in which most of the universe orbits the Earth, but the other five known planets circle the sun. But Cellarius’s magnificent rendering of the geocentric cosmos endures.
All of them reveal a species searching for answers to the grandest celestial questions-and slowly, improbably, succeeding in that quest.Įarth-Centered Cosmos (1660): History may not remember much about Andreas Cellarius, who, in 1660, was a school rector in Hoorn, The Netherlands. If there is dazzle in the contemporary images, there is a sweet, naïve genius in the earlier ones.
#COSMIC VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE. SERIES#
In the stunning new book Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World, an international panel of academics, artists, astronomers and more have collected a series of engravings, paintings, sketches and photographs, showing how our view of the cosmos has slowly changed. The more the stargazers learned, the more they tried to share what they were discovering with the rest of humanity. Over the centuries, we slowly came to a clearer understanding of the structure and workings of the universe, thanks to the birth of the telescope and the steady accumulation of human knowledge. The sun, suspended above it all, streams through in a brilliant scattering of starry points. In the evening, a gigantic bowl with thousands of pinprick holes is inverted over the Earth-or so the thinking went. It’s easy to laugh at the ancient humans who thought of the nighttime sky as a sort of cosmic colander, but the idea made an intuitive kind of sense. The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe.
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