Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees - Couverture rigide

Hembrow, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1803994614 ISBN 13 : 9781803994611

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) was arguably the world’s first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today and humanity’s tomorrow.

Our modern understanding of many of the Earth’s most awe-inspiring phenomena owes much to a modest and quietly spoken, eighteenth-century Swedish astronomer, who died of tuberculosis aged just 42. From the Northern Lights, air pressure and magnetism to the shape of the planet, sea levels and early studies of climate change, Celsius unravelled some of the greatest mysteries of his time.

Best known for inventing the 100-point ‘centi-grade’ scale, Celsius’ name also now frames humanity’s future in the international targets to limit average global temperature increases to no more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. As our world faces this life-or-death struggle, there’s much we can learn from Celsius – if we will listen.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ian Hembrow is a former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Since 2016, he has worked regularly in Sweden on two books for the WHO's Uppsala Monitoring Centre, which is how he came across the story of Anders Celsius. He began working on the book in 2020 and traveled to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of Celsius's 1736-37 expedition to prove the shape of the Earth. In 2023 he published Ralph Edwards: Rare Events with Springer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803994614
• ISBN 13: 9781803994611
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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