Ocean of air, an: a natural history of the atmosphere
Auteur :
Walker, Gabrielle
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9780747592907
Date de publication :
19 mai 2008
Dimensions :
19,8 x 12,9 x 2,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. This book traces a journey of scientific discovery from the first experiments in the Renaissance to findings in space.