||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting conceit with a few insights|By Ben Moran|A neat premise--a medieval literary scholar and scientist write letters to one another--produces a few interesting observations about the Earth and geology. Very accessible, though the conceit of unedited epistles produces what is at times somewhat awkward writing (e.g. when they digress from their primary subject matter to|||"Earth is ambitious, thought-provoking and inspirational, conversationally written between two dissimilar but very complementary viewpoints. In this great age of exoplanetary discovery, it makes me wonder how unique our wonderful home planet really is
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful ...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Earth (Object Lessons) | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
