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1、Volume7,Feb2008-Dec2008Issue1TheInteractiveAstronomyTextbookbyChristopherJ.FlukeSwinburneUniversityofTechnologyDavidG.BarnesSwinburneUniversityofTechnologyReceived:10/19/07,Revised:02/25/08,Posted:04/24/08TheAstronomyEducationReview,Issue1,Volume7:113-125,2008©2008,ChristopherFluke.Cop
2、yrightassignedtotheAssociationofUniversitiesforResearchinAstronomy,Inc.AbstractWeintroducetheuseofinsituinteractivethree-dimensional(3-d)figuresindigitalastronomytextbooksasameansofenhancingstudentlearning.Therecent3-dextensionstotheAdobePortableDocumentFormat(PDF),combinedwithsimpleJa
3、vaScript,providenewwaystopresentintrinsically3-dmodels,datasets,andinstructionaldiagramsindigitalpublications.Thisisanenhancementtotheusualmethodofpresentingstatic,two-dimensionalviews,or"comicstrip"sequences,toindicatechangesinviewpoint.Interactivefiguresprovideopportunitiesforstudent
4、stoundertakeactivelearningwhilereadingatextbook:theyareabletoexploreanduncovertheconnectionsbetweenviewpoint,orientation,andthe3-dnatureofmodelsanddatasetsforthemselves.Thisversionofthearticlecontainsonlytwo-dimensionalfigures.Eachfigure'scaptionprovidesalinktoitsthree-dimensionalinter
5、activecounterpart.Acopyofthisarticlewithinteractivegraphicsintegratedintothedocumentcanbedownloadedfromhttp://aer.noao.edu/auth/flukebarnesinteractive3d.pdf.Pleasenotethatthethree-dimensionalfunctionalityrequiresAdobeAcrobatReaderVersion8orhigher.1.INTRODUCTION"Hispatternindicatestwo-d
6、imensionalthinking."Spock(StarTrekII:TheWrathofKhan)Thereisalongtraditionofusingtextbookstoteachastronomyasalternativestooriginalscientificworks,journalarticles,andotheracademicpublications.Gingerich(1990)summarizesanumberofthemostinfluentialtextsofthelast800years,startingwithSacrobosc
7、o'sSphere(c.1220),whichappearedinnumerouseditionsoverthefollowingcenturies.Akeycomponentofthemajorityoftheseearlyastronomytexts,particularlythoseaimedatanintroductoryornonscientificaudience,wastheuseofimages.Infact,oneoftheearliestextantscientificgraphsisintheappendixofanastronomytex
