A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places
Author:   John Edward Huth
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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9780226844428


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 November 2025
Format:   Hardback
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A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places


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Author:   John Edward Huth
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9780226844428


ISBN 10:   0226844420
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   13 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. Mental Maps of Space, Memory, and Society 2. From a Flat Earth to Early Cosmologies 3. Imagining and Finding the Planets 4. Mercury Must Be in Retrograde 5. Dante’s Journey 6. Imagining Extraterrestrials 7. On Earth as It Is in Heaven 8. The Wedding of Space and Time: Relativity 9. The Star Reckoning 10. Into the Realm of the Small: Quantum Mechanics 11. The Wisdom of the Inward Parts 12. Scaling to the Multiverse 13. The Psychology of Space Flight 14. Perspectives Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Index

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“A fascinating exploration that takes us from oceans to space, back to the brain, and inside the atom. Extraordinary.” * Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator *


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John Edward Huth is the Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University. He has done research in experimental particle physics since 1980 and is currently a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). He participated in the discovery of the top quark and the Higgs boson and is the author of The Lost Art of Finding Our Way.

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