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In other times, the astrolabe guided sailors on their journeys and revealed to people the movements of the stars and their bright flashes. The modern astrolabe, held in the reader's hands, shares the same ambition. However, the journey it promises holds greater surprises and unexpected paths.
It will begin with the wonders of the Universe, distant galaxies and comets, antimatter and the brilliant explosions of stars. Then, it will seek the answers that today's science provides to humanity's age-old questions: about the meaning of time and the existence of extraterrestrial life, about the great experiment of CERN and the detection of the elusive neutrino in the depths of the sea off Pylos.
Its partnership with the reader will also allow the astrolabe a different journey. One into the world of humanity and its Life. First, it will attempt to trace the painful crisis that currently holds Greece captive, and to identify the causes of today’s woes in its recent history, as well as its achievements.
The journey will conclude -with the reader's companionship, of course- with a look at the modern human and their fate; who feels suspended between the explosive growth of technology and the dominance of an economic system with a callous face.
The journey that today's Astrolabe promises has a familiar destination. It is the worlds where the author has been moving for years: the enigmas of the Universe and the path of Greece, the achievements of science and the human fate. Only that these worlds of the author, much like the Universe itself after the Big Bang, now seem to be expanding suddenly and inexplicably, as if they want to cover space and time.
Their hope is that somewhere therein they will encounter the worlds of the reader, their anxieties and questions. Then the handshake between the author and the reader will no longer be in the dark, but will occur in the light of the stars and with the mark revealed by an astrolabe of the Heavens and Life.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Giorgos Grammatikakis
- Publisher
- Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis
- Type
- Technology
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Release Date
- 12/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605243944
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