宇宙海洋上的涟漪：太阳系如何塑造人类历史 达戈马尔·德罗格Ripples on the Cosmic OceanDegroot, Dagomar

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Book Details

ISBN-13: 9780241741474

ISBN-10: 0241741475

Author: Dr Dagomar Degroot

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint: Viking

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 416

Release Date: 25 May 2026

Weight: 700g

Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 40mm

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书籍简介

一部雄心勃勃的世界史，展现了太空事件如何塑造地球上的生命。

我们的太阳系是一个非凡的地方，小行星偏离轨道，太阳风将带电粒子抛射到数十亿英里的太空深处。然而，我们很少思考这些规模如此巨大的事件是如何影响我们脆弱的蓝色星球的。

在《宇宙海洋的涟漪》一书中，达戈玛·德格鲁特追溯了人类与太阳系其他天体之间令人惊讶的联系。他揭示了其他行星的变幻莫测如何塑造了地缘政治，激发了科学和文化创新，并催生了关于生命起源和命运的新思想。

火星沙尘暴改变了冷战的走向，并激发了关于外星文明的奇幻故事。彗星撞击木星促成了行星防御战略的诞生。火山喷发将硫酸喷入金星大气层，暴露了全球变暖带来的生存威胁。

然而，正如我们不断拓展太空探索的边界一样，宇宙环境也日益受到人类活动的影响。但同时，它们或许也蕴藏着减缓地球气候危机的关键。《宇宙海洋的涟漪》一书敦促我们构建一种跨越浩瀚宇宙的星际环境保护主义，并思考将我们与宇宙以及彼此紧密联系在一起的深刻纽带。

Summary

An ambitious world history showing how space events have shaped life on Earth

Our solar system is an extraordinary place where asteroids careen off course and solar winds hurl charged particles across billions of miles of space. Yet we seldom consider how these events, so immense in scale, influence our own fragile blue planet.

In Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot traces the surprising threads linking humanity to the rest of the solar system. He reveals how the shifting sands of other planets have shaped geopolitics, spurred scientific and cultural innovation, and encouraged new ideas about the emergence and fate of life.

Martian dust storms altered the trajectory of the Cold War and inspired fantastical stories about alien civilisations. Comet impacts on Jupiter led to the first planetary defence strategy. And volcanic eruptions spewed sulfuric acid into Venus’s atmosphere, exposing the existential risks of global warming.

But just as we expand the boundaries of space exploration, cosmic environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to human activity. Yet, they may also hold the key to slowing down the climate crisis back on Earth. Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean urges us to develop an interplanetary environmentalism across a vast mosaic of entangled worlds and to consider the profound connections that bind us to the cosmos and each other.

作者简介

达戈玛·德格鲁特是乔治城大学环境史副教授。他为《华盛顿邮报》、《自然》和《Aeon》杂志撰稿，著有《寒冷的黄金时代——气候变化、小冰期与荷兰共和国，1560-1720》，该书被《金融时报》评为2018年十大历史书籍之一。

Dagomar Degroot is Associate Professor of Environmental History at Georgetown University. A contributor to the Washington Post, Nature and Aeon, he is the author of The Frigid Golden Age- Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720, named one of the ten best history books of 2018 by the Financial Times.