Earth

AvJeffrey Jerome Cohen,Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-09
Mått:122 x 164 x 12 mm
Vikt:136 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Object Lessons
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501317910

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Jeffrey Jerone Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University, USA, and co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (which received the 2017 René Wellek Prize for best book in comparative literature).Linda T. Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist and the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission. She is the Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Previously, she was Vice President at Arizona State University, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and faculty at MIT. She is the author of a six-book series The Solar System (1st edition 2006; 2nd edition 2010) and co-editor, with A. Schmidt and K. Fristad, of Volcanism and Global Environmental Change (2015). Her articles have been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Nature Geoscience, Nature, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Astrophysical Journal, among other publications.

Recensioner i media

[An] alchemy of unlikely ideas ... [The authors] reflect on the geological history of the earth and humanity's understanding of it over the millennia.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Prologue: Genesis 2. Orbit 3. Ground (Why Earth?)4. Scale (Barriers to Understanding)5. Radiance (Earth's beauty)6. Gravity (Earth's Pull)7. Interlude: A Hike Around Piestewa Peak8. ImaginationList of IllustrationsNotesIndex