Find The Constellations

Constellations nicely done. After a long time a book shows the constellationsthat a lay person cans see with "stick and dot" diagrams unlike one having tohe a gifted artist with a wild imagination to recognize paintings in the sky.

Charming book by H.A, Rey, the eventual co-creator of the Curious George series with Margaret Rey. Explains complicated astronomical notions in a simple yet accurate manner.

タイムリーで早くて物もばっちりでした。パーフェクトでした。

This is the best layed out book on the night sky I have ever read, and the myths make it even better. Should be manditory for all children! Fantastic.

This book is much better than any of my most highly acclaimed modern books on astronomy when it comes to the subject of the constellations which are effectively the alphabet and the beginning words of astronomy. The most stunning thing is how the contemporaries deliberately choose to be ignorant of Rey's obviously superior work, and choose to continue nonsensical geometric representations of the contellations and the use of latin names which are nothing but trivial and pretentious. It's a simple thing to translate the names to latin or recognize a constellation even if someone has connected the stars together by lines that form an unrecognizable object once you have learned them in the first place because you will see the stars and the object they form which relates directly to its name. However, if a student is first presented with shapes that in no way represent the name of a constellation and latin names as well, it only serves to obfuscate the knowledge which Rey adeptly argues should be common even among the uneducated. It seems that most of the other writers on the subject would prefer to keep the knowledge obscured by archaic language and esoteric shapes. Rey obviously wants children to understand this most basic knowledge which anyone can learn.A shameful travesty of this book is that modern editors have ripped out Pluto. Foolhearted academics can argue and pronounce their opinions on whether Pluto should be considered a planet or not. I don't care to listen to their rabble. They have no good reason to remove accurate information from Rey's book. They've done it only to satisfy their ego, as though they and their committes can determine the fate of the cosmos. Had they merely amended the information on Pluto it would have been fine, but they removed it. Shame!The only place where Rey's work itself appears inaccurate or out of date is where he refers to the Andromeda nebula. Rey correctly identifies it as a galaxy but his use of the term nebula, which was historically common, is confusing since "nebula" is used to refer to an object of gas and dust within a galaxy (the only ones being visible are those in our own galaxy). In modern terms, we would call what Rey refers to as the Andromeda galaxy and we use 'nebula' to refer to objects in our own galaxy such as the Orion nebula. The editors should have fixed this outdated choice of words and left Pluto alone.I am a huge fan of this book as I believe it can quite easily bring an ignorant person up to a level of knowledge about the cosmos that substantially exceeds that of most university graduates, and it's fun all along.

Un librito estupendo que nos ayuda tanto a los padres como a los hijos a encontrar con más facilidad las constelaciones, y a saber dibujar sus formas en el cielo.