Mike Vago

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!


Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!

It's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everythingand so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.

At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Altersempfehlung: ab 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615197781
• Artikelnr.: 64257193

Autorenporträt

Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf. He's a graphic designer and a regular contributor to The A.V. Club. He tells people he lives in New York, but he actually lives in New Jersey.