Cosmic View By Kees Boeke

Kees boeke s cosmic view is a classic on learning about the scale of things.

Cosmic view by kees boeke. The book begins with a photograph of a dutch girl sitting outside a school and holding a cat. It consists of a series of 40 illustrations with text and captions. It is similar to the morrison s powers of ten but aimed at a younger audience.

Kees boeke is perhaps best known outside of the netherlands for his book cosmic view. Cosmic view the universe in 40 jumps by kees boeke this unique book takes you on a graphic journey through the universe to the edge of infinity in one direction and to the nucleus of the atom in the other. Dust jacket in very good co.

Its legacy includes charles eames s film powers of ten the resulting book by philip and phylis morrison and several similar books which followed. It is similar to the morrison s powers of ten but aimed at a younger audience. The book presents a series of forty pictures composed.

Next our view included the whole central part of that country. Table of contents introduction. Kees boeke s cosmic view is a classic on learning about the scale of things.

This book presents a series of forty pictures composed so that they may help to develop this wider view. The first picture from which we start is as we said already one of a child sitting in front of the school with a cat on her lap. Cosmic view the universe in 40 jumps 1957 1st edition by kees boeke.

The text backs up from the original photo with graphics that include more and more of. Soon the moon came into view then the nearer planets and the sun. The universe in 40 jumps is a 1957 book by dutch educator kees boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny.