An Intimate Look at the Night Sky by Chet Raymo, Vintage, 拢8.99, ISBN
0099428679
ANYONE who lives in a city may find it difficult to understand exactly what
inspires Chet Raymo to look up at the sky. Light pollution from all that modern
living renders his star maps of the northern hemisphere鈥檚 sky somewhat
indistinct. But鈥攁nd this makes a huge change from your standard 鈥渨hat to
see in the sky鈥� tome鈥攖hat is absolutely no reason to avoid dipping into
his chunky paperback, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, making it the
perfect astronomy book for the city bound.
Raymo鈥檚 essays take us through the long winter evenings to short summer
nights via the texts of ancient Greece and the paintings of Vincent van Gogh,
and on to the insides of atoms. You needn鈥檛 even bother looking skywards from
the book as you learn how stars burn, how planets spin and how we鈥檙e all going
to die at the end of it all.
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