Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In <i>Earth</i>, 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 world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <i>The Atlantic</i>.
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