"It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond ones day-to-day experiments and look at the big pictureand the origin of the Moon is a big picture question par excellence. Perhaps it makes sense that William Hartmann, one of the two scientists who unraveled the Moons biggest mystery, is not only a scientist but also a part-time artist and science fiction writer. It took someone with an artists eye and a fiction writers speculative temperament to see the big picture.
"This is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth that used to look vastly different from todays Earth. But, most of all, it is about a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong planted his boot into the lunar dust."
From the Introduction
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"It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond ones day-to-day experiments and look at the big pictureand the origin of the Moon is a big picture question par excellence. Perhaps it makes sense that William Hartmann, one of the two scientists who unraveled the Moons biggest mystery, is not only a scientist but also a part-time artist and science fiction writer. It took someone with an artists eye and a fiction writers speculative temperament to see the big picture.
"This is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth that used to look vastly different from todays Earth. But, most of all, it is about a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong planted his boot into the lunar dust."
From the Introduction
Imprint | John Wiley & Sons |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2003 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 2003 |
Authors | D. Mackenzie, Dana Mackenzie |
Dimensions | 236 x 161 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-471-15057-2 |
Barcode | 9780471150572 |
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LSN | 0-471-15057-6 |