中文简介：

这是一本展示Johann Doppelmayr宏伟的《天体图册》的精美作品，它解构了其错综复杂的图版，并探讨了其具有影响力的观点。

本书展示了Johann Doppelmayr在1742年绘制的宏伟的宇宙地图《天体图册》，这本壮观的天体指南也是对天文学基础知识和历史的精彩介绍。它绘制了星座、行星、彗星和卫星，通过错综复杂的彩色图版展示了许多知名、有影响力的天文学家的想法和发现，包括哥白尼、里乔利、开普勒、牛顿和哈雷，这些图版都配有注释具象图画和装饰性特征的图表与表格。

在这里，你可以欣赏到那些精美的天文和宇宙学图版，理解其中以逐步解构的形式呈现出来的细节。天文学家Giles Sparrow阐明了每张图版中固有的科学思想，专业地解码和分析了其中包含的复杂信息，并将Doppelmayr的华丽图册置于文艺复兴和启蒙运动时期的突破性发现的背景中。《现象》是一部壮观的、具有启示意义的天体汇编，扩展并解释了Doppelmayr最初的天体图册，并反思了该图册对天文学科学发展至今的影响。

英文简介：

A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas.

Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this spectacular guide to the heavens is also a superb introduction to the fundamentals and history of astronomy. Charting constellations, planets, comets and moons, Doppelmayr's Atlas presents the ideas and discoveries of many famous and influential astronomers, including Copernicus, Riccioli, Kepler, Newton and Halley, in intricate colour plates that interweave annotated diagrams and tables with figurative drawings and ornamental features.

Here, you can appreciate the beauty of those exquisite astronomical and cosmographical plates and comprehend the details, which are also presented in step-by-step deconstructed form. Astronomer Giles Sparrow elucidates the scientific ideas inherent in each plate, expertly decoding and analysing the complex information contained in them and placing Doppelmayr's sumptuous Atlas in the context of the ground-breaking discoveries made during the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. A spectacular, revelatory celestial compendium to the cosmos, Phaenomena expands on and explains Doppelmayr's original, awe-inspiring Atlas and reflects upon its influence on the development of the science of astronomy to the present day.