North (The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos)
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Product Details
Author:
Gyrus
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
320
Publisher:
MIT Press (September 18, 2014)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781907222276
ISBN-10:
1907222278
Weight:
15.5oz
Dimensions:
5.81" x 8.31" x 0.96"
Case Pack:
14
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RandomHouse
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$20.95
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$16.13
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Strange Attractor Press
Overview
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…
