To bring William Smith’s revolutionary discoveries as well as the glory of his maps to the wider reading public, The University of Chicago Press has published the first complete presentation of his works in their lavishly illustrated, large format book “Strata; William Smith’s Geological Maps.”
In his new book “Phenomena,” Giles Sparrow, FRAS, presents Johann Doppelmayr’s thirty “Atlas Coelestis” plates in vivid, large format reproductions that are then extensively annotated to provide the modern reader with an understanding of not only what the Atlas conveyed to the readers of its day but also the significance of this information understood from our own modern day perspective.