An Ocean Of Air: Why The Wind Blows And Other Mysteries Of The Atmosphere
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ISBN : 9780156034142
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An Ocean Of Air: Why The Wind Blows And Other Mysteries Of The Atmosphere
• 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.
Specification of An Ocean Of Air: Why The Wind Blows And Other Mysteries Of The Atmosphere
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Author | Gabrielle Walker |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | First |
ISBN-10 | 015603414 |
ISBN-13 | 9780156034142 |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Publication Year | 2008 |
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