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03178aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2D39E2E498BC11EEA3C943791FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231212010041 008 230621s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2023010695 020 $a 1529346088 020 $a 9781529346084 020 $a 1541674774 020 $a 9781541674776 035 $a (OCoLC)1370002345 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Trotta, Roberto,. 245 1 $a Starborn : $b how the stars made us (and who we would be without them) / $c Roberto Trotta. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2023. 300 $a xii,336 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal relationships has been with the night sky itself. In Starborn, cosmologist Trotta shows how stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from their cycles of agriculture to their patterns of birth. Our origin myths made the Sun into a life-giving creator and the Milky Way a gateway for departed souls. The motion of celestial bodies sustained the illusion that the Earth was at the center of the cosmos-until looking at them more closely sparked the Scientific Revolution. Across the ages stars have served as clocks, maps, compasses, muses, and gods, defining both our laws of reality and our dreams of the sublime. How radically different would humanity be, Trotta also asks, if our ancestors had looked up to the night sky and seen... nothing? In lyrical yet evidence-grounded meditations he imagines a world without stars, a dramatic alternate history in which we wouldn't understand gravity, where couldn't navigate or have much sense of time, and where our sense of the profound-of art and of the divine-was altered beyond recognition. Revealing the hidden connections between astronomy and the story of civilization, Starborn summons us to the marvelous sight that awaits us on a dark, clear night-to lose ourselves in the immeasurable vastness above"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20231114. 650 $a Cosmology $x History $v Popular works. 650 1 $a Astronomy $x History $v Popular works. 650 $a Science and civilization $v Popular works. 650 1 $a Stars $v Popular works. 650 7 $a Astronomy. $2 fast 650 7 $a Cosmology. $2 fast 650 7 $a Science and civilization. $2 fast 651 $a Outer space $v Popular works. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast 655 7 $a Popular works. $2 fast 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013019.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240202011905.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231212010512.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2D39E2E498BC11EEA3C943791FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search