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An Ocean of Air - Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere (Paperback, Revised)
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An Ocean of Air - Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere (Paperback, Revised)
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List price R489
Loot Price R430
Discovery Miles 4 300
You Save R59 (12%)
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We don't just live in the air; we live because of it. It's the most
miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our
weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant
book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers
of our atmosphere with the stories of the people who uncovered its
secrets:
- A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy our air
really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighs
seventy thousand pounds.
- A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds a set of winds that
constantly blow five miles above our heads.
- An impoverished American farmer figures out why hurricanes move
in a circle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door.
- A well-meaning inventor nearly destroys the ozone layer.
- A reclusive mathematical genius predicts, thirty years before
he's proved right, that the sky contains a layer of floating metal
fed by the glowing tails of shooting stars.
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