[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:34:07 -0800
Wow, that's askin' a lot of time. I'd be interested, but the thing is,
I'm not that brilliant with this sort of thing, only music and math.
That idea you have, is a great one and will take time to its
extremity. You can count me in, when I'm done with college!
On 1/15/08, Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That sounds neat. Wouldn't it be wonderful if
> picture-book publishers would do the same thing,
> maybe with a key at the beginning of the book that
> would relate textures to colors. Then even if a blind
> child or person had never seen a color he/she could
> imagine what it looked like and know that the
> illustration had differences. And if someone had
> synesthesia,maybe they would smell different odors
> from the different textures.
>
> Perhaps one or more of you creative people could form
> a publishing company and get publishers' permission to
> publish their books that way? When you make your
> millions from going public you can offer me one-half
> of one percent for the idea and encouragement. smile
>
> G.Cindy
>
> --- Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Since this is available through the NFB and other
> > sources, and because the pages have different
> > textures, it doesn't look like a good candidate for
> > Bookshare, but I thought that some people might be
> > interested in it. If anyone does get it, please let
> > me know what you think. (I'm a big astronomy buff).
> >
> > Just an FYI, Carrie
> >
> > ----- Forwarded Message ----
> > NASA UNVEILS COSMIC IMAGES BOOK IN BRAILLE FOR BLIND
> > READERS
> >
> > BALTIMORE - At a Tuesday ceremony at the National
> > Federation of the
> > Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic
> > images taken by
> > its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the
> > blind.
> >
> > "Touch the Invisible Sky" is a 60-page book with
> > color images of
> > nebulae, stars, galaxies and some of the telescopes
> > that captured the
> > original pictures. Each image is embossed with
> > lines, bumps and other
> > textures. These raised patterns translate colors,
> > shapes and other
> > intricate details of the cosmic objects, allowing
> > visually impaired
> > people to experience them. Braille and large-print
> > descriptions
> > accompany each of the book's 28 photographs, making
> > the book's design
> > accessible to readers of all visual abilities.
> >
> > The book contains spectacular images from the Hubble
> > Space Telescope,
> > Chandra X-ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope
> > and powerful
> > ground-based telescopes. The celestial objects are
> > presented as they
> > appear through visible-light telescopes and
> > different spectral
> > regions invisible to the naked eye, from radio to
> > infrared, visible,
> > ultraviolet and X-ray light.
> >
> > The book introduces the concept of light and the
> > spectrum and explains
> > how the different observatories complement each
> > others' findings.
> > Readers take a cosmic journey beginning with images
> > of the sun, and
> > travel out into the galaxy to visit relics of
> > exploding and dying
> > stars, as well as the Whirlpool galaxy and colliding
> > Antennae
> > galaxies.
> >
> > "Touch the Invisible Sky" was written by astronomy
> > educator and
> > accessibility specialist Noreen Grice of You Can Do
> > Astronomy LLC and
> > the Museum of Science, Boston, with authors Simon
> > Steel, an
> > astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
> > Astrophysics in
> > Cambridge, Mass., and Doris Daou, an astronomer at
> > NASA Headquarters,
> > Washington.
> >
> > "About 10 million visually impaired people live in
> > the United States,"
> > Grice said. "I hope this book will be a unique
> > resource for people
> > who are sighted or blind to better understand the
> > part of the
> > universe that is invisible to all of us."
> >
> > The book will be available to the public through a
> > wide variety of
> > sources, including NASA libraries, the National
> > Federation of the
> > Blind, Library of Congress repositories, schools for
> > the blind,
> > libraries, museums, science centers and Ozone
> > Publishing.
> >
> > "We wanted to show that the beauty and complexity of
> > the universe goes
> > far beyond what we can see with our eyes!" Daou
> > said.
> >
> > "The study of the universe is a detective story, a
> > cosmic 'CSI,' where
> > clues to the inner workings of the universe are
> > revealed by the
> > amazing technology of modern telescopes," Steel
> > said. "This book
> > invites everyone to join in the quest to unlock the
> > secrets of the
> > cosmos."
> >
> > "One of the greatest challenges faced by blind
> > students who are
> > interested in scientific study is that certain kinds
> > of information
> > are not available to them in a non-visual form,"
> > said Marc Maurer,
> > president of the National Federation of the Blind.
> > "Books like this
> > one are an invaluable resource because they allow
> > the blind access to
> > information that is normally presented through
> > visual observation and
> > media. Given access to this information, blind
> > students can study and
> > compete in scientific fields as well as their
> > sighted peers."
> >
> > The prototype for this book was funded by an
> > education grant from the
> > Chandra mission and production was a collaborative
> > effort by the NASA
> > space science missions, which provide the images,
> > and other agency
> > sources.
> >
> > For more information on NASA's Great Observatories,
> > visit:
> >
> > http://www.nasa.gov
> >
> >
> > -end-
> >
> >
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