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North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
Taschenbuch von Gyrus
Sprache: Englisch

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A bold vision of cosmology mapping how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies.

From H.P. Lovecraft to Philip Pullman, popular culture is rife with the mystique of the North.

Why does it command such fascination? How far into the past do its roots extend?

Ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age, North's bold vision of cosmology maps how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies. And when the Copernican Revolution unseated the idea of Earth as the centre of everything, shards of this polar cosmos fell down, seeding strange fantasies, haunting our modern world with remnants of celestial dreams...

A bold vision of cosmology mapping how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies.

From H.P. Lovecraft to Philip Pullman, popular culture is rife with the mystique of the North.

Why does it command such fascination? How far into the past do its roots extend?

Ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age, North's bold vision of cosmology maps how the pole star became associated with political power, religious rapture, and social hierarchies. And when the Copernican Revolution unseated the idea of Earth as the centre of everything, shards of this polar cosmos fell down, seeding strange fantasies, haunting our modern world with remnants of celestial dreams...

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Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Strange Attractor Press
ISBN-13: 9781907222276
ISBN-10: 1907222278
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gyrus
Hersteller: MIT Press
Strange Attractor Press
Maße: 208 x 147 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Gyrus
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2014
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 109128789
Über den Autor
Gyrus
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Strange Attractor Press
ISBN-13: 9781907222276
ISBN-10: 1907222278
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gyrus
Hersteller: MIT Press
Strange Attractor Press
Maße: 208 x 147 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Gyrus
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2014
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 109128789
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