Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them) - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541674776ISBN-10:1541674774UPC:9781541674776Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:Space Science, Natural History, History & PhilosophyBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.40 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC6TERCM1S
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
An astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541674776ISBN-10:1541674774UPC:9781541674776Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:Space Science, Natural History, History & PhilosophyBook Topic:AstronomySize:9.40 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC6TERCM1S
Roberto Trotta is professor of theoretical physics at the International School for Advanced Study in Trieste, Italy, and visiting professor of astrostatistics at Imperial College London. The award-winning author of The Edge of the Sky, he lives under dark skies near Trieste.
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