Автор: Hubert Krivine
Название: The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Издательство: Verso
Год: 2015
Формат: epub
Размер: 3.5 Mb
Язык: Английский

How mankind discovered the size, trajectory and age of the Earth
Our planet’s elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But humanity’s struggle towards these scientific truths lasted millennia. Few of us have more than the faintest notion of the path we have travelled.