Earth / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, author.

Elkins-Tanton, Lindy, author.

Series:

Object lessons

Object Lessons : a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth (Planet)--Popular works.

Earth (Planet).

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

134 pages : illustrations, maps ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Summary:

"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?" --Amazon.com.

Contents:

Prologue : genesis

Orbit

Ground (why Earth?)

Scale (barriers to understanding)

Radiance (Earth's beauty)

Gravity (Earth's pull)

Interlude : a hike around Piestewa Peak

Imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Earth.

ISBN:

9781501317910

1501317911

OCLC:

946903474

Publisher Number:

99981561297