Earth by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Paperback Book)

Name: Earth by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Paperback Book)
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\nIn 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 \u201Cblue marble,\u201D \u201Ca blue pale dot,\u201D or, as Chaucer described it, \u201Cthis litel spot of erthe,\u201D 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\n\nEarth\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price ad;