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Mapping the Universe

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This chapter focuses on a variety of ways the structure of a complex system can be revealed by maps. Familiar examples, ranging from maps and depictions of the earth, the sky, and the universe, are analyzed to identify what they have in common and how they are unique. What is special after all about something that we might have taken for granted?

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Chinese Proverb

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    http://www.astr.ua.edu/gallery2t.html

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    http://www.sdss.org/

  3. 3.

    http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Chaomei Chen

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Chen, C. (2013). Mapping the Universe. In: Mapping Scientific Frontiers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5128-9_2

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