The Human Cosmos
by Jo Marchant
In The Human Cosmos award-winning science writer Jo Marchant tells the history of our relationship with the stars, from our cave-dwelling ancestors to a NASA astronaut walking in space, observing the “velvet bottomless bucket of the universe stretching on forever”. The stars have inspired and awed humans throughout history but nowadays not so much, which is a pity.
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