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Our moon : how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution and made us who we are
Author/other person: Boyle, Rebecca
Place, Publisher, Year: New York, Random House, [2024]
Extent: XVIII, 313 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN: 9780593129722
Subject heading: Mond / Naturwissenschaften / Kulturanthropologie / Philosophie
Shelfmark: 35/AST500/2024.857
| Author/other person: |
Boyle, Rebecca
|
|---|---|
| Title: | Our moon |
| Subtitle: | how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution and made us who we are |
| By: | Rebecca Boyle |
| Place: | New York |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Year: | [2024] |
| Year: | © 2024 |
| Extent: |
XVIII, 313 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten |
| Details: |
Illustrationen |
| Format: | 25 cm |
| Abstract: | "Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves. More than 30,000 years before humans invented writing, they used the Moon's waxing and waning to track the passage of time, and, in a tectonic shift for human consciousness, used it to plan for the future. Unsurprisingly, the Moon was a primary feature of the first religions, written language, and philosophy. But our relationship to the Moon became more concrete when Apollo landed on it in 1969 in a moment of scientific and political triumph. And both engineering and politics promise to shape our relationship with it in the near future. Scientists advocate for a return to the moon to do research; governments and billionaires want to return to turn a profit from its mineral resources. Who gets to decide how we use a celestial body that, Boyle argues, belongs to everyone and no one? How can we learn to protect this beautiful, spectral thing that we all share?"-- |
| Formatted contents note: | A world apart -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The creation -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The biographer of Earth -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The moon and the origin of species -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The beginning of time -- |
| Formatted contents note: | Early civilization and the compass of time -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The ornament of the sky -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The voyage of discovery begins with the moon -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The moon in our eyes -- |
| Formatted contents note: | Journeys of the mind -- |
| Formatted contents note: | The Eagle and the reliquary -- |
| Formatted contents note: | Our eighth continent |
| ISBN: | 9780593129722 |
| ISBN: | 0593129725 |
| Price: | Hb. |
| Classification: | AST500 |
| Subject heading: |
Mond ;
Naturwissenschaften ;
Kulturanthropologie ;
Philosophie |
| Subject: | Moon Popular works Moon History Popular works Moon Social aspects Popular works Moon Religious aspects Popular works Moon Philosophy Popular works Lune Ouvrages de vulgarisation Lune Histoire Ouvrages de vulgarisation Lune Aspect social Ouvrages de vulgarisation Lune Aspect religieux Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
| Subject: | SCIENCE Space Science General SCI034000 SCIENCE History Philosophy Social aspects War Religious aspects Social & cultural anthropology History of science Space science Lune Philosophie Ouvrages de vulgarisation Moon Moon |
| Language: | English |
| Other edition entry: | Erscheint auch als |
| _Note: | Online-Ausgabe |
| _ISBN: | 9780593129739 |
| Katkey: | 1994620 |
