沃新书屋 - An Ocean of Air - 作者:Walker, Gabrielle

Walker, Gabrielle

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  • ISBN:9780151011247
  • 作者:Walker, Gabrielle
  • 出版社:Houghton Mifflin
  • 出版时间:2007-8
  • 页数:272
  • 价格:198.00元
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  • 装帧:Hardcover
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  • 适合人群:对海洋科学、环境保护感兴趣的读者;喜爱自然文学的读者;对旅行文学感兴趣的读者;喜欢科普知识的青少年和成人
  • TAG:旅行文学 / 科学普及 / 环境保护 / 海洋文学 / 自然探索
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  • 更新时间:2025-05-20 17:12:18

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We spend our lives surrounded by air, hardly even noticing it. It's the most miraculous substance on earth, yet responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In fact, we live at the bottom of an ocean of air. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories of the people who uncovered its secrets: - A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy our air really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighs seventy thousand pounds. - A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds a set of winds that constantly blow five miles above our heads.- An impoverished American farmer figures out why hurricanes move in a circle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door. - A well-meaning inventor nearly destroys the ozone layer. - A reclusive mathematical genius predicts, thirty years before he's proved right, that the sky contains a layer of floating metal fed by the glowing tails of shooting stars.