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- Publication Year
- 2019
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- Book Title
- Moon Lib/E : a History for the Future
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- Science, History
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- Cosmology, Expeditions & Discoveries, Astronomy
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An intimate, profound portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor from an award-winning science writer and Economist senior editor Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse---and Earth-bound audiences shared their view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. In this short but wide-ranging book, Oliver Morton explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with the Moon from the earliest astronomers such as van Eyck and Galileo through the first space flights and anticipating next phase of our interaction with the Moon, as a portal and stepping stone to further space exploration. The Moon's gentle light has spoken of love and loneliness; its battered surface of death and the cosmic. For some, it is a future on which humankind has turned its back. For others, an adventure yet to begin. Advanced technologies, new ambitions and old dreams mean that men, women and robots now seem certain to return to the Moon. What will they learn there about the universe, the Earth-and themselves? And, this time, will they stay?
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Hachette Audio
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154915186x
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9781549151866
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Moon Lib/E : a History for the Future
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Compact Disc
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English
Topic
Cosmology, Expeditions & Discoveries, Astronomy
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Science, History
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Unabridged Edition
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Morton's science writing is compelling and clear. Sections on the formation of the moon and the history of lunar science are engrossing... [Morton] has a gift for synthesizing science, technology and culture., This is a book to bend your mind with the mysteries of the swirl-like markings on the lunar surface or the cadence of impacts that have bombarded the inner Solar System...[Morton] has written what is surely the most eloquent exploration of our modern understanding of the Moon., Cool, melancholy... [Morton's] flights of fancy include a geological formation story for the moon that Lars von Trier's film Melancholia cannot rival for spectacle and sentiment...His moon is a place defined by absences, gaps and silence. He toys with thoughts of future settlement; he explores the commercial possibilities., Beautifully written: evocative, witty, and truly informative. I thoughtI knew a lot about the Moon but I nonetheless learned all sorts of fascinatingnew things, and thoroughly enjoyed myself doing so. Combining science andscience fiction is not easy and Oliver Morton manages it seamlessly andbrilliantly! Superb., The Moon is such a fascinating object in human history. From its dominance in our neighboring sphere, to its romantic impetus, to its symbol of national stature, to its position as a mere stepping stone to greater exploits, the Moon has been omnipresent in the human sky. And no book about the Moon that I've ever read captures the multifaceted nature of the Moon as does Oliver Morton's The Moon . As impressive as the subject matter he deals with is the quality of Oliver Morton's writing. Whether describing the clockwork of the lunar cycle or the history of the Moon's influence in human affairs, Morton's writing is clear, incredibly informative, and flows like poetry. A truly delightful and informative read., OurMoon, a spherical bit of unchanging inanimate rock, nonetheless captivates uswith its romance and its beauty. Its tantalizing almost deceptive proximitymakes it also a destination, both a past one and a promising one for thefuture. In this poetically written and informative book, Oliver Morton takes usthrough all aspects of this very familiar but very foreign territory, which hasinspired stories and study for decades. What a remarkable achievement and onewell worth exploring.-- Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird Professor of Science, Harvard University, It's unlikely, though, that any of this new crop of books will be as wide-ranging, and as entertaining, as The Moon by Oliver Morton, a staff writer at The Economist. The book is a collection of essays that examines all those aspects of the Moon, and more, and does so in a way that will be thought-provoking even for those familiar with those topics., Of the books in this overwhelming flood, one stands out for the understated elegance of its prose and the profoundly wide-angle view it offers of its subject: Oliver Morton's The Moon: A History of the Future . Only one of the book's eight chapters is explicitly devoted to the Apollo missions, but the tome, in its entirety, places humanity's lunar forays into new, thought-provoking contexts guaranteed to surprise and delight even the most knowledgeable space buff., A stunning, beautifully-written account of not just the Apollo mission, but of the entire history of our relationship with the Moon., An engaging, multifaceted view of the moon... an account that is not only rich in facts, but leavened with fiction, for the author seems to have read widely in the literature of science fiction to show the interest, ideas, and fantasies people have had about our nearest companion in the solar system... Accessible, informative, and entertaining-first-rate popular science reporting., Brilliant and compelling. Morton is a high-octane British science journalist, and every chapter is littered with material that strikes, amazes or haunts... It should be clear that this is an unusually thoughtful and well-written science book...This is a book filled not just with a lifetime's knowledge of its subject but with a lifetime's suppressed excitement." -- Sunday Times (UK), Elegant.. His prose is well-honed, if occasionally breathless, and adds a lyrical dimension to chapters on lunar properties and phenomena., A hymn to the Moon. I can't think of a wiser, more eloquent orbetter-informed companion for a journey around our natural satellite than OliverMorton, whose poetic prose displays a breadth of knowledge not often found inscience writing., A multidisciplinary triumph, combining a deep understanding of sciencefiction and myth with accurate, up-to-date lunar science and space technology., One day, perhaps very soon or long in the future, humankind will return to the Moon. Oliver Morton's account of our sublime and scientific relationship with the Moon, from how it defines our night sky and our sense of time and the seasons, to our scientific fascination with the mysteries it holds, to how our striving to reach it has come to define the pinnacle of technological achievement, testifies to the timeless attraction of our celestial companion. In the light of this Moon, Morton finds reflections of our lives on this planet, and the forces at work throughout the history of the Earth that have made it a habitable home for us, even as we now search for life in this solar system and the many others beyond ours recently discovered. Morton's is a study not only of the Moon, but of its significance in human history, how we have come to understand our own planet and our place in the cosmos, and what we might do next in exploration.
Copyright Date
2019
Dewey Decimal
523.3
Dewey Edition
23
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