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| #608984 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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting conceit with a few insights|By Ben Moran|A neat premise--a medieval literary scholar and scientist write letters to one another--produces a few interesting observations about the Earth and geology. Very accessible, though the conceit of unedited epistles produces what is at times somewhat awkward writing (e.g. when they digress from their primary subject matter to t
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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