Ebook: Space ExplorationA History in 100 Objects

Cover; Contents; Foreword by John Mather; Introduction; 1. The Blombos Ochre Drawing; 2. The Abri Blanchard Bone Plaque; 3. The Egyptian Star Clock; 4. The Nebra Sky Disk; 5. The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa; 6. The Star Charts of Senenmut; 7. The Merkhet; 8. The Nimrud Lens; 9. The Greek Armillary Sphere; 10. The Diopter; 11. Antikythera Mechanism; 12. Hipparchus's Star Atlas; 13. The Astrolabe; 14. The Dunhuang Star Atlas; 15. Al-Khwārizmī's Algebra Textbook; 16. The Dresden Codex; 17. The Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger; 18. Giovanni de' Dondi's Astrarium; 19. The Big Horn Medicine Wheel;"From Galileo's telescope to the International Space Station - a stunningly photo-filled tour through the milestones of space exploration, examining iconic objects from Sputnik to Skylab and their effect on what we know and how we think about space"--