Product Description: The night sky has always fascinated artists and scientists, awed by its beauty and perplexed by its meaning. This volume illustrates some of the rarest and most beautiful books in the history of astronomy, drawn from the Huntington Library's collections and supplemented with Hubble Telescope deep field images supplied by NASA and with illuminated manuscripts from the J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sky above -- eternal and serene, yet intricate and mysterious -- has piqued human curiosity for at least as long as records survive. This book documents the evolution of humanity's understanding of the cosmos, drawing on some of the most rare and beautiful books in the history of astronomy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)