Cosmic Dawn
by Eric Chaisson
At a glance:
- Author: Eric Chaisson
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Planets, Earth, Astronomy or astronomers, Universe, Stars, Physics or physicists, Life sciences
As the Polish astronomer and theorist Nicholas Copernicus is given credit for having demonstrated that man’s home planet, Earth, does not have “center stage” in the solar system, so too should such latter day theorists as Eric Chaisson, author of Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life, be given credit for having taken the Copernican vision of man’s place in the universe one step further. Chaisson and other contemporary thinkers believe that the Earth not only is a vassal of the sun but also is little more than an obscure planet in a mediocre galaxy (the...
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