The book is out.
You can get an idea of it at www.universalworkshop.com, and a fuller idea by clicking the “View More” button.
The table of contents that you see is an image made from two facing pages, so I’m a little concerned about its reproduction. Please let me know whether you can read it.
Takes a lot of work to publish a book. Congrats on your latest masterpiece.
I see what you mean; let’s hope that the softening effect is an artefact of the web rendition and not intrinsic.
To me the contents are readable but marginally soft – and the adjacent images of only thumbnail, nay, toward icon quality .
The illustrations shown below are of differing quality – the earlier ones are fine, the latter decidedly uncrisp.
Neither would the flaws, should they manifest in the actual print, dissuade me from appreciating the content though.
All illustrations and text in the printed book are perfeftly sharp. I just meant that there was some inevitable reduction of clarity in the screenshot made from the contents pages. Actually I mentioned it as a trick to get you to read that list of contents and notice some of its enticing items! Bad idea if it caused a misunderstanding; serves me tight.
I was able to read the table of contents perfectly. :)
If I go to http://www.universalworkshop.com/guy-ottewell/uranus-neptune-pluto/ and then zoom it with my mousewheel I can read the contents text, but the drawings still cannot be appreciated for their probably impressive content.
I can hardly wait! It looks beautiful, and I will be grateful to have your vivid printed charts for years to come. (Lately I’ve been missing the plan of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth from the Astronomical Calendar. With three eclipses in the next lunar month, I’ve been trying to picture the geometry of the syzygies, nodes, apogee, and perigee. Neither my drawing nor my mental visualization are up to the task.)
I can read the table of contents fine on an ipad 2.