#cosmigraphics

[disasther]

Early drawings of Saturn by pioneering astronomer-artist Maria Clara Eimmart, from 'Cosmigraphics.'

[wandering-between-worlds]

Drawings of man's curiosity :: Mapping our Universe. Our quintessential quest to understand the cosmos and our place in it.

[frombookforum-blog1]

"When we look to the planets and stars-regardless of their distance and immensity-we have always seen ourselves, our stories. The universe, these images tell us, is really no more than the size of a pen and its page." 

-Albert Mobilio on Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time by Michael Benson

[magictransistor]

Lunar Mountains. The Wolbach Library, Harvard. 1874.

[abramsbooks]

Tonight at 7pm at BookCourt in Brooklyn: Michael Benson discusses his new book Cosmigraphics!

Reading

Audience Q&A

Book Signing

Presentation

     About Cosmigraphics: Michael Benson tells the thrilling story of the discovery and description of the universe in a new way. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world’s great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity’s ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time.

Cosmigraphics explores the visual side of our great­est imaginative achievement as a species: the unveiling of a vast universe that is largely invisible to our senses. It will be a revelation to space-struck Earthlings, art lovers, and readers interested in the history of science, the visualization of information, graphic design, and mapping.

Michael Benson's books for Abrams include Beyond, Far Out, and Planetfall. A photographer, writer, and filmmaker, in the last decade he has staged a series of increasingly large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography. He lives in Boston and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[colliderblog]

Finally got the new Cosmigraphics book by Michael Benson. This thing is a tomb! Just leafed through it quickly and there is some really amazing imagery of how scientists and artists tried to depict the universe throughout the centuries.

Already written up in the NYTimes and the art blog Hyperallergic.

Can't wait to dive right in! I haven't been this excited since I got my CERN popup book last year.

[explore-blog]

Stunning painting of the 1874 transit of Venus from Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time – Michael Benson's magnificent visual history of humanity's quest to understand the universe and our place in it.