Earth

by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501317911
• ISBN13: 9781501317910
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 6.4"