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| #314276 in Books | Bloomsbury Academic | 2017-03-09 | 2017-03-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.53 x11.30 x4.89l,.0 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | Bloomsbury Academic||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Smart, captivating, surprisingly intimate|By reluctant reviewer|In this utterly captivating book, a scientist and a medievalist contemplate the planet. They discuss, through their often personal and moving letters to each other, what it means to understand, visualize, and imagine the earth from different scales and perspectives. The beauty of the planet and the beauty of the gr|||"Earth is ambitious, thought-provoking and inspirational, conversationally written between two dissimilar but very complementary viewpoints. In this great age of exoplanetary discovery, it makes me wonder how unique our wonderful home planet really is.
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 a...
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