Alternative Moons

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ISBN 13 : 9789492051370
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Moons written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moon has been a source of inspiration and imagination throughout human history. Laden with mythological and superstitious narratives, it has also been a source of speculative science fiction and surprisingly real facts. The first collaborative artists' book by Nadine Schlieper and Robert Pufleb offers a fantastical journey through a fictitious conceptualisation of the moon. With more than 40 photographic images of moons and cosmic landscapes, it presents an equal number of new discoveries and revelations. Join the space trip and discover formerly unseen images of mysterious moons from an unknown galaxy, as the dawn of reality is catching up behind the scenes.

Author : Arthur Upgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553563
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Skies written by Arthur Upgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.

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Total Pages : 804 pages
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Author : Marilyn Hilton
Publisher : Dial Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0525428755
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Full Cicada Moon written by Marilyn Hilton and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.

Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062190415
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

Author : Bill Dalton
Publisher : Bill Dalton
ISBN 13 : 1566910625
Total Pages : 81 pages
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Download or read book Indonesia Handbook written by Bill Dalton and published by Bill Dalton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history and culture of the nation's provinces and offers advice on accommodations, transportation, languages, restaurants, and interesting places to visit.

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Total Pages : 1284 pages
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Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 646 pages
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Author : Arthur R. Upgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535128
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Many Skies written by Arthur R. Upgren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in this work will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding readers that their view of the universe is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.