Las constelaciones del zodiaco: Astronomía para ciegos y disminuidos visuales

GARCIA, B

UNIREDES - Facultad de Educación Elemental y Especial de la UNC

Lugar: Mendoza; Año: 2005 p. 142

987-575-027-1

One thinks, in general, that exist areas of the knowledge to which it is not possible to be acceded if one of the senses is diminished.  Nevertheless, the reality is far from this false concept:  it is not necessary to hear, to compose music, nor to see to come near to the starred sky.  This book has the purpose to  introduce to the readers with visual difficulties in the amazing world of astronomy, by means of the transmission of basic concepts of positional astronomy (cardinal points, Earth movements, apparent movement of the celestial sphere), with special emphasis in:   movement of precession, the concept of stellar magnitude and its representation in celestial charts, and mythology related.  On the other hand, the figures associated with the 13 constellations in the region of the plane of the ecliptic are described.  The texts and the images are displayed in two formats:  for visual diminished people, one worked on the base of the original engravings of the Uranographia by Hevelius (1690), these were adapted and simplified for their better understanding, and a recommended font size; for blind people, we use tactile feature for the figures and Braille for the text.