The atlas covers the expanse of the universe and the inner solar system, and it cycles through ... As Launius writes in the introduction of the book, the atlas represents “a significant effort ...

At the time, Hubble represented the state of the art in imaging the universe, and the photograph ... Early in the book, Panek cites a 1936 quote from American astronomer Edwin Hubble: "The history ...

The system, of course, wasn't perfect. Limitations due to image recognition and the ambiguity of book covers themselves made it difficult for some to be categorized. There was difficulty with ...