Object Lessons. Earth

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Object Lessons. Earth. „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 and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a w