An Ocean of Air

A Natural History of the Atmosphere

Gabrielle Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2008
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-9290-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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. In this fascinating celebration of the Earth's fragile atmosphere, Gabrielle Walker traces a journey of groundbreaking scientific discovery from the first experiments in the Renaissance to recent findings in space.

Gabrielle Walker has a PhD in chemistry from Cambridge and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. She is a consultant to New Scientist, contributes frequently to BBC radio and writes for many newspapers and magazines. The author of Snowball Earth and presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Planet Earth Under Threat', she lives in London and France.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2008
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-7475-9290-X / 074759290X
ISBN-13	978-0-7475-9290-7 / 9780747592907
Zustand	Neuware