After the success achieved with Great visual history of philosophyby the Japanese Masato Tanaka and Tetsuya Saito, the Blackie Books publishing house published in September 2022 Great visual guide to the cosmos, a work that facilitates in 312 pages the understanding of the universe in an original and entertaining way. A guide full of illustrations and graphics that help deepen astronomical knowledge for both experienced and inexperienced, old and young, those who know something about the subject or don’t know it all.
To explain the magnitude of the cosmos, popular astronomer Carl Sagan said the following: “The number of stars we can see is but a tiny fraction of the number of stars that exist. What we see at night is nothing more than a superficial view of the closest stars and some more distant bright stars. Meanwhile, the cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the Universe is greater than that of all the grains of sand on all the beaches on planet Earth. That complex immensity of the universe, that richness that Sagan speaks of, is what Toshifumi Futamase and Toshihiro Nakamaru, with the help of Yu Tokumaru’s illustrations, try to explain in this work with the maximum possible simplicity without losing even an iota of rigor. scientist.
‘Great Visual Guide to the Cosmos: A Guide with Simple Graphics and Illustrations to Understanding Key Concepts of the Universe’ by T. Futumase, T. Nakamaru and Y. Tokumaru
Did you know that Mercury is the planet that orbits closest to the Sun? Do you know the Tully-Fisher relationship? What is the mechanism of a type Ia supernova? Could you define a spectrum? These and more questions, some more difficult than others, are what it answers Great visual guide to the cosmos. More than 200 key concepts of the cosmos explained through understandable and original images that, in an accessible way, illustrate the origin and evolution of the universe, the physical laws that govern it and the most relevant scientific discoveries. The ideal book to discover or continue investigating astrophysics.
Albert Einstein said: “There are only two things infinite: human stupidity and the universe, and I am not sure about the latter.” In this way, there is no better way to stop being stupid than, precisely, getting to know the universe with this essential guide. A work, available only in the best bookstores and on websites like Amazon, that offers complex but very necessary knowledge available to everyone. Few gifts are as valuable and dazzling as this one.
