Someone, maybe me, should publish a Hollywood-homes-of-the-stars-type map of America's premier crime novelists, complete with oval-shaped portraits of the authors displayed above the areas they chronicle.
Just as 19th-century museums often had a globe of the world and a map of the stars as the linchpin of their displays, these photographs, he said, are the 21st-century equivalent.
The monument incorporates some of Einstein's physics into its design – at his feet is an astronomical map of the stars; standing at its centre on the North Star and talking to Albert creates a perfect echo chamber.
It had several principal parts: a base plate (the mater) with a network of lines representing celestial coordinates; an open-pattern disk (the rete; see photograph) with a "map" of the stars, including the aforementioned circles, that rotated on the mater around a centre pin corresponding to the north celestial pole; and a straight rule (the alidade), used for sighting objects in the sky.
A three-dimensional map of the stars, this celestial globe features a mechanical device.
In the artist's tableaus featuring the "Big Thinkers," the viewer catches a pair of friends pouring over texts of philosophy, while two other amicable-looking figures pour over a map of the stars, as the "Big Dreamers".
In 1934 artist Katherine Maltwood suggested a landscape zodiac, a map of the stars on a gigantic scale, formed by features in the landscape such as roads, streams and field boundaries, could be found situated around Glastonbury.
Such charts are maps of the stars in the sky at a specific point on Earth at a specific time.
Some have argued that the pyramids were laid out as a map of the three stars in the belt of Orion, although this theory has been criticized by reputable astronomers.
Lacaille portrayed the constellations of Norma, Circinus and Triangulum Australe, respectively, as a set square and ruler, a compass, and a surveyor's level in a set of draughtsman instruments, in his 1756 map of the southern stars.
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille portrayed the constellations of Norma, Circinus and Triangulum Australe as a set square and ruler, a compass, and a surveyor's level respectively in a set of draughtsman's instruments in his 1756 map of the southern stars.
