What is Atlas (disambiguation)?
{{enWiktionary|atlas|Atlas}} {{TOCright}} '''[[Atlas]]''', most commonly means a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form. '''Atlas''' can mean: == Greek mythology == * [[Atlas (Titan)]], a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders * Atlas, the first king of [[Atlantis]] == Science == In '''astronomy''': * [[Atlas (moon)]], a moon of Saturn * [[Atlas (crater)]], a prominent impact crater on the Moon * [[Atlas (star)]], a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster In '''biology''': * A book about flora and/or fauna of an area or region; for example, [[Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland]] * [[Atlas (anatomy)]], the topmost cervical vertebra of the human spine * [[Atlas Beetle]], a rhinoceros beetle (''Dynastinae'') in the genus ''Chalcosoma'' * ''[[Attacus atlas]]'' (or Atlas moth), a large saturniid moth * ''[[Atlas Cedar]]'', a large cedar tree native to the Atlas mountains of Algeria and Morocco * [[Atlas Flycatcher]], a bird in the an Old World Flycatcher family * [[Atlas Bear]], a species of bear native to Africa, now extinct * ''[[Testudo atlas]]'' (or Atlas turtle), an extinct species of cryptodire turtle from the Pleistocene period In '''physics''': * [[ATLAS experiment]], a particle detector for the [[LHC]] at CERN * [[Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System]], a particle accelerator at the Argonne National Laboratory In '''mathematics''': * [[Atlas (topology)]], a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics == Literature and press == * ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', a novel by Ayn Rand * ''Atlas'', a book of photography by German artist [[Gerhard Richter]] * ''[[The Atlas (novel)|''The Atlas'' (novel)]]'', by American author William T. Vollmann * ''Atlas'' publishing house for collector series (mainly automobile, plane and train miniatures), active in Switzerland, France and Italy * [[Atlas (magazine)|''Atlas'' (magazine)]], Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment,