"Touch the Universe" is a unique and innovative astronomy book that will help visually impaired people "see" the wonders of our universe. Using a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos, it is embossed with shapes that represent various astronomical objects, such as stars, gas clouds, and jets of matter streaming into space. "Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, "Touch the Universe" takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo - the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies. As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like...until now."
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"...a fine achievement... the text is concise and lucid, and some of the illustrations are classics of their kind." -- Royal National Institute for the Blind, Jan/Feb 2003
"...a unique resource for the visually impaired that will delight all students in your class. ...highly recommended." -- NSTA Recommends, May 2004
"...an excellent Braille publication. It is very compact and concise. ... The tactile images are well explained and thoughtfully produced." -- BarrierFree, Winter 2003/4
"Noreen Grice presents the sky in a way I'd never envisaged." -- New Scientist, March 22, 2003
"Very interesting... For a visually impaired person, such as myself, who’s a fluent Braille reader, the book is great." -- International Journal of Astrobiology, January 2004
"...a unique resource for the visually impaired that will delight all students in your class. ...highly recommended." -- NSTA Recommends, May 2004
"...an excellent Braille publication. It is very compact and concise. ... The tactile images are well explained and thoughtfully produced." -- BarrierFree, Winter 2003/4
"Noreen Grice presents the sky in a way I'd never envisaged." -- New Scientist, March 22, 2003
"Very interesting... For a visually impaired person, such as myself, who’s a fluent Braille reader, the book is great." -- International Journal of Astrobiology, January 2004
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Touch the Universe is a unique and innovative astronomy book that will help visually impaired people "see" the wonders of our universe. Using a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos, it is embossed with shapes that represent various astronomical objects such as stars, gas clouds, and jets of matter streaming into space.
"Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, Touch the Universe takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo -- the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies.
As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like ... until now."
"Universally designed" for both the sighted and visually impaired reader, Touch the Universe takes readers on a voyage of discovery, starting at Earth, proceeding through the solar system, and ending with the most distant image taken by Hubble, the mind-boggling "Hubble Deep Field" photo -- the first telescope image ever to bring home to human consciousness in a deeply fundamental way the literally infinite reaches of our universe of galaxies.
As the author puts it, "A visually impaired person can still touch and smell a flower, or a tree, or an animal, but he or she could only imagine what an astronomical object is like ... until now."
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A masterpiece!,
By Great Pretender "1happygirl" (NJ, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy (Spiral-bound)
This could very well be one of the best braille books ever. As a wife to a blind man and involved with an organization that helps blind children, this is a book we all enjoy "looking at" over and over again.
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