Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are - Rebecca Boyle
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An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth–from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches–from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributor
Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the key to some of science’s central questions, and in this fascinating account of our remarkable satellite, award-winning science journalist Rebecca Boyle shows us why it is the secret to our success.
The Moon stabilizes the Earth’s tilt toward the Sun, creating reliable seasons. The durability of this tilt over millennia stabilizes our climate. The Moon pulls on the ocean, driving the tides. It was these tides that mixed nutrients in the sea, enabling the evolution of complex life and, ultimately, bringing life onto land.
But the Moon also played a pivotal role in our conceptual development. While the Sun helped humans to mark daily time, hunters and gatherers used the phases of the Moon to count months and years, allowing them to situate themselves in time and plan for the future. Its role in the development of religion—Mesopotamian priests recorded the Moon’s position to make predictions about the Moon god–created the earliest known empirical, scientific observation.
Boyle deftly reframes the history of scientific discovery through a lunar lens, from Mesopotamia to the present day. Touching on ancient astronomers including Claudius Ptolemy; ancient philosophers from Anaxagoras to Plutarch; the scientific revolution of Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler; and the lunar fiction of writers like Jules Verne–which inspired Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket scientist who succeeded in landing humans on the Moon–Boyle charts our path with the Moon from the origins of human civilization to the Apollo landings and up to the present.
Even as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon, opening up new frontiers of discovery, profit, and politics, Our Moon brings the Moon down to Earth.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
January 22nd, 2024
A lot of lunar scientists including NASA scientists say the moon should not be there, and that its easier to explain it not being there, then being there.
Very ancient texts have said the moon appeared in the sky, ancient Greeks referred to ancient people as those who “lived here before the moon”.
Lots and lots of anomalies with the moon.
January 22nd, 2024
@Hogweed Absolutely, my favorite is the fact that we get a perfect lunar eclipse, or close enough to perfect it doesn’t matter, because our moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but it’s also about 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun, which makes them appear the same size to us down here. This “extreme oddity” is also what gives us lunar eclipses. I’m not saying it was manufactured and then “towed here” from the asteroid belt, with the amount of worlds and stars out there the odds of this happening SOMEWHERE is 100%, it just so happened to happen here.
February 28th, 2024
Thank you!
March 27th, 2024
lol, the history of the moon is well established. A Theia (a proto-planet roughly the size of mars) collided with earth at an oblique angle. Both bodies literally liquefied, and earth got its extra metal core, and maximum heat. The debris coalesced into the moon. It is slowly moving away from the earth.
When they examined moon rocks, they discovered they were essentially earth rocks, which led to the conclusion of the theory. Its been modeled thousands of times, and while nobody can ever say it with 100% certainty, it far from being challenged.
try googling before stating facts that dont exist.
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