What is "atlases"

Usage examples of "atlases".

It came to light that operators were reluctant to sign up for these Atlases, teased by their colleagues about how one got inside them.

Among heaps of tapes, photographic plates, papers, and atlases stood a large desk, its top curved around in a half-ring with a swivel chair in the center.

To my left, three tall shelves of outsized atlases stretched off to the far wall.

I thought once again of the volumes of superstitious nonsense, along with the half-dozen star-atlases I had also spotted on the shelves.

Then abruptly he pushed both atlases aside and reached for one of the globes, an enormous paste board model, some four feet in diameter, which he spun on its lacquered pedestal.

I was gnawing at my lower lip as I perched in the chair, studying the rows of atlases overhead.

Now they were engaged in what Keff recognized as a true space battle, fought with atlases instead of micrometers.

The names will be different from those current in many American-printed atlases, especially as the major rivers change their beds and names to whatever the local people choose.

Among the moderns, Ishmael Abulfeda marks it at Cadiz, Alfonso at Toledo, Pigafetta and Herrera the same, Copernicus sets it at Fruemburg, Reinhold at Monte Reale or Koenigsberg, Longomontanus at Copenha­gen, Lansbergis at Goes, Riccioli at Bologna, and the atlases of lansonius and Bleau at Monte Pico.