The Bullis Collection has a book that you Star Trek fans out there might also find impressive. (At least, some of our Bullis volunteers who are also Star Trek fans have "oohed" and "ahhed" while looking at the maps and diagrams.)
A New Star Atlas for the Library, the School,
and the Observatory in Twelve Circular Maps:
Intended as a companion to
'Webb's Cellestial Objects for Common Telescopes'
by Richard Anthony Proctor
Published in London by Longmans Green, in 1881
The Star Trek series (according to several sources) reflects the fictional universe in the 23 or 24th century, over 200 years in the future. Proctor's book, with its charts, maps and diagrams, shows the universe as understood 135 years in the past. Comparing the Star Trek universe, the 1881 view, and our current knowledge of the skies is interesting, to say the least.
So we suggest you add A New Star Atlas ... to your "must stop by the Bullis Room and look through these books" list, and plan to do that soon.
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