The universe within : discovering the common history of rocks, planets, and people
(2013)
By:
Shubin, Neil
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
550/SHUBIN,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]
©2013
©2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307378439 (hbk.), 0307378438 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Rocking our world -- Blasts from the past -- Lucky stars -- About time -- The ascent of big -- Connecting the dots -- Kings of the hill -- Fevers and chills -- Cold facts -- Mothers of invention
Shubin shows how the entirety of the universe's fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies as he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes