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Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together, these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in print for the first time, this edition combines both volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It directly replicates Barnard's text, and contains high-resolution images of the original photographic plates and charts, reordered so that they can be seen together. It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama.

Sean Carroll, cosmólogo y físico estadounidense de gran proyección mediática, pretende con esta obra aportarnos una nueva manera de abordar las grandes preguntas de la humanidad: ¿Por qué existimos? ¿Cuál es la finalidad de la existencia? ¿Qué podemos saber acerca del universo y de nosotros mismos? ¿Cómo pensamos y decidimos? «Este libro lo debería leer todo el mundo.» Carlo Rovelli.