Our moon how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are
"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stir...
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New York :
Random House,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: How the moon was made. A world apart
- How the moon was made
- The biographer of the Earth
- Part II: How the moon made us. The moon and the origin of species
- The beginning of time
- Early civilization and the compass of time
- The ornament of the sky
- The voyage of discovery begins with the moon
- Part III: How we made the moon. The moon in our eyes
- Journeys of the mind
- The Eagle and the reliquary
- Our eighth continent.
