Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Earth and Space Scientists - Couverture rigide

Jeremy, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798182889407

Editeur : Blochspin, 2026

Synopsis

This is the fifth volume in the Standing on the Shoulders of Giants comic series for children, after the physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology books. Professor Ada Quill and five curious students, Maya, Leo, Sofia, Sam and Amina, climb the "Giants' Stair". At each step they meet a great scientist who helped explain how the Earth works and what lies beyond it. Together the pages trace two sciences that measure the natural world with physics: astrophysics (the Sun, planets, stars and galaxies) and geophysics (the Earth's shape, magnetism, earthquakes, oceans and climate).

The story begins in a classroom with Sam's question: if the Earth is spinning, why can't I feel it? From there it runs from ancient times to today in 13 chapters:

• Babylonian sky watchers spot the 18-year eclipse cycle, and Eratosthenes measures the whole Earth with two shadows.
• Scholars of China, India and the Islamic world add more: Zhang Heng's earthquake detector, Aryabhata's spinning Earth and Al-Biruni's mountaintop measurement.
• Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo put the Sun at the centre, and Newton shows that one force, gravity, rules apples, moons and planets.
• Halley's comet returns, Cavendish weighs the Earth, and Hutton reads "deep time" in the rocks.
• Rock layers, fossils, clouds and ice ages are mapped and named. Starlight is split into rainbows that reveal what stars are made of and how they move.
• Seismologists use earthquake waves to find the Earth's crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core.
• Climate scientists from Eunice Foote to Charles Keeling discover the greenhouse effect and measure rising carbon dioxide.
• Marie Tharp, Harry Hess and others read the sea floor and prove that continents drift on moving plates.
• Hubble and Lemaître reveal an expanding universe. Later giants explain how stars shine, die and make the elements in our bodies.
• The final chapter covers rockets, satellites, impact craters, dark matter, the dinosaur-ending asteroid, the "pale blue dot" and planets around other stars.

The book ends at the top of the stair with an invitation: what question will YOU answer?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blochspin
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182889407
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 126
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible