The following table relates the number of the movies to figure numbers in the book "In Quest of the Universe". A description of what is shown in the animations may be obtained from the figure captions in the book and the text of the related chapter. These movies are located in the folder "Kuhn Movies" under "Movie Archive" on the CD-ROM "Quest Toolkit".
Movie # | Description | Figure # in Book |
1-3 | The Celestial Sphere | 1-3 |
1-10 | Sun on the Ecliptic | 1-9 |
1-12 | Cause of Seasons | 1-14 |
1-20 | Retrograde Motion | 1-21 |
1-22 | Geocentric Motion, Mars | 1-21 |
1-23 | Geocentric Motion, Venus | 1-24 |
2-4 | Copernican System | 2-5 |
2-5 | Sun's Apparent Motion | 2-6 |
2-6 | Earth's Axis Tilt | 2-6 |
2-7 | Heliocentric Motion, Mars | 2-16 |
2-20 | Kepler's Second Law | 2-24 |
3-5 | Venus Phases, Ptolemy | 3-3 |
3-6 | Venus Phases, Copernicus | 3-5 |
3-7 | Venus Phases | 3-5 |
3-14 | Center of Mass | 3-22 |
3-20 | The Tides | 3-29 |
3-22 | Earth's Precession | 3-30 |
4-18 | Doppler Effect | 4-25 |
6-9 | The Moon's Rotationevolution | 6-10 |
6-11 | The Moon's Phases | 6-11 |
6-14 | Eclipse Seasons | 6-17 |
6-19 | Solar Eclipse Path | 6-20 |
7-8 | A Sidereal/Solar Day | 7-13 |
8-1 | Viewing Mercury | 8-1 |
8-10 | Mercury's Rotationevolution | 8-10 |
9-19 | Saturn's Orbit | 9-25 |
10-3 | Charon's Orbit around Pluto | 10-6 |
11-20 | Corona during Eclipse | 11-23 |
11-28 | Sun's Magnetic Lines | 11-33 |
12-9 | Evolution of Appearance of Big Dipper | 12-11 |
14-14 | Sun transforms into Red Giant | 14-15 |
15-12 | Pulsar Lighthouse Model | 15-19 |
15-20 | Cygnus X-1, Doppler Shift Analysis | 15-35 |
16-12 | Motion of Globular Clusters | 16-7 |
16-18 | Spiral Arm Theory | 16-13 |
16-19 | Density Wave Analogy | 16-18 |
18-05 | Expanding Universe Analogy | 18-7 |
18-06 | Cosmological Redshift | 18-11 |