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PublisherBasic Books
ISBN-101541674774
ISBN-139781541674776
eBay Product ID (ePID)13059007233
Product Key Features
Book TitleStarborn : How the Stars Made Us (And Who We Would Be Without Them)
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicHistory & Philosophy, Natural History, History, Astronomy, Physics / General
GenreMathematics, Science
AuthorRoberto Trotta
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.7 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-010695
Dewey Edition23/eng/20230928
Reviews"Mr. Trotta writes like a poet, suffusing fact-dense pages with heart and even ardor. Starborn presents an engaging cultural history, salted with well-placed literary reference and the occasional personal anecdote...accessible and enjoyable."-- Rebecca Boyle , Wall Street Journal, "A stunning and unforgettable voyage through the stars. Almost every page will make you gulp in astonishment. To be so authoritative and yet so readable and companionable, that is a rare and priceless achievement..."-- Stephen Fry, actor, "This mesmerizing history of stargazing looks both back into the past and forward. An excellent recommendation for thoughtful and curious readers."-- Library Journal, "Trotta offers a stellar survey of the 'remarkable but often unrecognized' role played by stars and other cosmic bodies in human history... . The prose is evocative...and the history fascinates...it's a stimulating take on how the heavens have shaped life on Earth."-- Publishers Weekly, " Trotta's beautifully written book captures the concealed connections between astronomy and civilization."-- Andrew Robinson , Nature
Dewey Decimal520
SynopsisAn 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 reveals how stargazing has shaped the course of human civilization. The stars have served as our timekeepers, our navigators, our muses--they were once even our gods. How radically different would we be, Trotta also asks, if our ancestors had looked up to the night sky and seen... nothing? He pairs the history of our starstruck species with a dramatic alternate version, a world without stars where our understanding of science, art, and ourselves would have been radically altered. Revealing the hidden connections between astronomy and civilization, Starborn summons us to the marvelous sight that awaits us on a dark, clear night--to lose ourselves in the immeasurable vastness above.
LC Classification NumberQB982.T763 2023
