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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, author.

Elkins-Tanton, Linda T., author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth (Planet)--Popular works.

Earth (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 Peak

8. Imagination

List of Illustrations

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781501317941

1501317946

9781501317927

150131792X

9781501317934

1501317938

OCLC:

1201426630