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The Copernicus complex : our cosmic significance in a universe of planets and probabilities
- Title
- The Copernicus complex : our cosmic significance in a universe of planets and probabilities / Caleb Scharf.
- Author
- Scharf, Caleb, 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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| Text | Request in advance | QB981 .S34 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A groundbreaking revision of the Copernican Principle which is that the Earth was not the fixed point at the center of the known universe (and therefore we are not unique). Renowned astrophysicist and author Caleb Scharf argues that the principle has never been entirely true and therefore requires that we put aside our Copernican worldview and embrace the possibility that we are in a delicate balance between mediocrity and significance, order and chaos.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-263) and index.
- Contents
- From microcosm to cosmos -- The Copernicus Complex -- The ten-billion-year spree -- Neighbors -- A grand illusion -- Sugar and spice -- Hunters of the cosmic plain -- There's something about here -- (In)Significance.
- ISBN
- 9780374129217 (hardback)
- 0374129215 (hardback)
- 9780374709464 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014008035
- 40024200901
- OCLC
- 869263752
- ocn869263752
- SCSB-5772344
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries