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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780375708824
Combining popular science, biography, and arctic adventure in
a book that reads lika a cross between Longitude, A Beautiful Mind,
and Into Thin Air, Lucy Jago presents a riveting acount of the life
and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the visioinary
who solved the mysteries of the aurora borealis.
Here is the true story of an eccentric genius held captive by the
allure of celestial splendor; of brushes with death on the remote
snowcapped mountains of Norway and in the unforgiving, wartorn
deserts of Africa; of the rival who cheated Birkeland of a Nobel
Prize; and of the brilliant discoveries Birkeland made before his
suspicious death in Japan in 1917. Meticulously researched and
passionately wrought, The Northern Lights offers an enlightening
account of the science behind one of nature’s most spectacular
displays and a revealing glimpse into the mind of one of history’s
most passionate and ill-fated scientists.
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