Meteorite - Nature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Long-time resident of Egypt, Maria Golia is the author of critically acclaimed non-fiction, including Cairo: City of Sand (2004) , Photography and Egypt (2009) and Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure (2020), all published by Reaktion Books. Klappentext "Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In [this book], Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streaked skies, [they] were once thought to be messengers from the gods. Worshipped in the past, now scrutinized with equal zeal by scientists, meteorites helped sculpt Earth's features and have shaped our understanding of the planet's origins"--Amazon.com. Zusammenfassung Meteorite: Nature and Culture offers an accessible overview of what science has learned from meteorites, beginning with the scientific community’s reluctant embrace of their interplanetary origins, and explores their power to reawaken that precious, yet near-forgotten human trait – the capacity for awe.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Golia, Golia Maria
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781780234977
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-497-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Earth; Reaktion Books - Earth; Earth
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; NATURE / Sky Observation, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space