WALKING ZERO: DISCOVERING COSMIC SPACE AND TIME ALONG THE PRIME MERIDIAN
Book ID/图书代码: 14060006B01028
English Summary/英文概要: Noted science writer chet raymo explores how we found our place in space and time, and what it has meant to humankind.
In Walking Zero, Chet Raymo uses the prime meridian-the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world’s maps and clocks-to tell the story of humankind’s intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than our-selves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 科学作家Chet Raymo向我们展示了我们是怎样发现我们生存的地方和时间的,还有它们对于我们人类意味着什么。
书中,Chet Raymo运用本初子午线——通过格林威治时间的经线(零度经线)——来讲述人类智慧之旅的故事。他向我们展示了在我们了解空间和时间的过程中科学,信仰,艺术和心理学上的相互之间的影响。
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About the Author/作者介绍: CHET RAYMO is the author of Climbing Brandon, The Path, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, Skeptics and True Believers, and several other books about science and nature. Professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College, he lives in North Easton, Massachusetts.
Format:GALLEY
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