Man's Dream of Worlds Seen

Man’s Dream of Worlds Seen

Carl Sagan and John Clark are a team

A very unusual team indeed – scientist Sagan and artist Clark working together to open the complex vistas of the universe. Kip Thorne’s black holes are mathematical concepts at best. But teamed with Adolf Schaller, artistic translation gives full color substance and form to formulae. The result? Cosmic portraits: man’s dream of worlds unseen.

Three years ago Astronomy magazine established a hallmark of beauty and readership intimacy seldom found today. And each month since then it has followed through with full color paintings and photographs, clear and pictorial writings, inviting layout and design, uncompromised printing quality… care and commitment to you the subscriber. Astronomy makes the universe appealing. It transforms alienating theory to inviting, entertaining discovery.

Join 52,000 Astronomy magazine subscribers to discover the excitement of space and astronomy with Fred Whipple (comets), Joseph Veverka (Mars), Gerrit Verschuur (radio astronomy), David Morrison and Michael Ovenden (asteroids), George Abell (galaxies), William Hartmann (Saturn), Thomas Easton (life on Mars), Jay Pasachoff (Sun), Frank Drake (neutron stars)… scientists of worlds unseen.

A Stellar Girl. Illustration by Megan Jorgensen

Astronomy’s monthly departments guide you to astrophotography with cameras you probably already own – to the use of telescopic equipment – to location and observation of planets, constellations, asteroids, comets, galaxies, , double stars, star clusters… to all the cosmic beauty awaiting your personal discovery.

Book reviews guide your astronomy reading and Astro-News keeps pace with the latest discoveries , research and findings… brought to you while they are still news.

History of American Astronomy

And now, Astronomy proudly presents a very special bicentennial celebration issue entirely devoted to the evolution of astronomy in the United States.

This exciting full color epic takes you from the prehistoric astronomy practiced by indigenous Americans, to the birth of astrophysics and development of astrophotography, through 20th century American astronomy – the discovery of quasars, pulsars, black holes – and the start of our nation’s third century, “Toward Man’s Dream of Worlds Unseen”.

Noted authors – Van Del Chamberlain (Smithsonian Institution), Trudy E. Bell (Scientific American editor), Richard Berendzen (American University, Washington, D.C.), Michael Mendillo (Boston University), and David DeVorkin (Central Connecticut State College) – unfold the history of American astronomy with drama and refreshing writing style.

Full color reproductions of American astronomical art from the 1800s, antique brass telescopes and instruments, portraits of famous American astronomers and color sky photographs from leading observatories across the country, are interspersed with equally historic wood cuts and the first astrophotographs of the sun, moon and Milky Way.

We invite you to join us as a subscriber and receive the July 1976 “History of American Astronomy” issue as a portion of your subscription.

Collect Astronomy treasure this and every issue of “The World’s Most Beautiful Astronomy Magazine”. No other magazine of space and astronomy has ever been able to make so great a claim – and keep its word.

American Bicentennial Subscription offer

Subscribe to Astronomy Magazine for $12.00 and save $5.50 off the regular newsstand price of $16.50 for 11 copies. We’ll bill you later. After you pay your bill you will receive as the 12th copy of your subscription the July “History of American Astronomy” issue at the paid subscriber price of only $1.00 – you save $2.50 off this copy alone. Your total savings on this 12 issue American Bicentennial Subscription offer is $8.00 (40%) off the single copy newsstand price.

Astronomy Magazine. The World’s Most Beautiful Astronomy Magazine. Established August 1973. Published monthly by Astro-Media Corp., 411 E. Mason St., 6th Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Per year subscription: Canada/Mexico, $15. Other Foreign, #18. Offer expires December 31, 1976.