Adamo, Angelo (Author)
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Physical Details: 400 pp.
Language: Italian
Si fa presto a dire “pianeta”, un termine che sembra non richiedere mai precisazioni, tanto appare ovvio; banale, quasi. Eppure richiama alla mente un’immagine il cui significato (fra diaspore spaziali, fughe e traslochi dal sapore fantascientifico capaci di modificare il senso e il valore di un concetto tanto semplice e comune quanto vago) è cambiato più e più volte nel corso della storia, dalle origini ai giorni nostri. In Domicili cosmici l’astrofisico, divulgatore, fumettista e musicista Angelo Adamo raccoglie e organizza una grande quantità di idee mutuate non solo dalla geologia, dall’astronomia e dalla sua storia, ma anche dalla letteratura, dalla poesia e dal cinema, per ripercorrere le tappe di questa continua trasformazione. E lo fa arricchendo il testo con le sue tavole originali e suggestive, veri e propri calembour disegnati, che si intrecciano con i giochi di parole e le espressioni matematiche disseminate nel testo. Il risultato è quasi un’antologia, un compendio illustrato di filosofia astronomica che racconta un’evoluzione culturale fatta di idee, ipotesi, suggestioni, storie, esperimenti, simulazioni. E speranze. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… It's easy to say “planet”, a term that never seems to require clarification, it seems so obvious; trivial, almost. Yet it brings to mind an image whose meaning (between space diasporas, escapes and removals with a science fiction flavor capable of modifying the meaning and value of a concept as simple and common as it is vague) has changed over and over again in the course of history, from its origins to the present day. In "Domicili cosmici" the astrophysicist, popularizer, cartoonist and musician Angelo Adamo collects and organizes a large amount of ideas borrowed not only from geology, astronomy and its history, but also from literature, poetry and cinema, to retrace the stages of this continuous transformation. And he does so by enriching the text with his original and evocative tables, real drawn puns, which are intertwined with the puns and mathematical expressions scattered throughout the text. The result is almost an anthology, an illustrated compendium of astronomical philosophy that tells a cultural evolution made up of ideas, hypotheses, suggestions, stories, experiments, simulations. And hopes.]
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