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Nature 457, 30 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457030a; Published online 31 December 2008
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Year of astronomy: Visions of ourselves
Charles Cockell1
Abstract
The view of our planet from space is beautiful and humbling, yet this shift in human perspective has not altered how we care for our environment, argues Charles Cockell.
BOOK REVIEWED-Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth
by Robert Poole
Yale University Press: 2008. 236 pp. $26
It is human nature to try to understand our place in the cosmos. Changes in our perception of human significance have accompanied many revolutions in scientific thought, such as the theory of evolution and establishing the order of the planets in the Solar System.
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