The Planets Are Very, Very, Very, Far Away

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very, Far Away
Mike Vago
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Paperback
Not defined - 56pg
1 Mar 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781615197774
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Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!It' s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a placemat, a lunchbox, or in an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything - and so this is no ordinary book. Seven gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale. At a trillion-to-one scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find. . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A trillion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the spreads to find out. . .
Mike Vago is the creator of the bestselling The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf. He' s a graphic designer and a regular contributor to The A. V. Club. He tells people he lives in New York, but he actually lives in New Jersey. .
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781615197774
Published: 1 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: The Experiment LLC
Publisher: The Experiment LLC
Format: Paperback
Weight: 300g
Pages: 56

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