Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space

Astrophysicists Lachieze-Rey (Cosmology: A First Course) and Luminet (Black Holes) take a more technical tack in this serious yet engaging and accessible coffee-table book, first published in France in 1998 to accompany a Biblioth que nationale exhibition. With 380 color maps and charts from all ages and lands, computer graphics and Hubble Space Telescope photos, the two deftly trace astrophysical fact and myth as it changes over time. (July)