Starwords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language
暫譯: 星語：現代語言的天體根源

Kunth, Daniel, Terlevich, Elena

Starwords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-03-22
  • 售價: $1,500
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,425
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 167
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031490231
  • ISBN-13: 9783031490231
  • 相關分類: 其他

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商品描述

Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos. We now use words like "zenith", "Monday", "disaster", "dog days", "starfish", "lunatic", flu, and so many others, without a second thought for their celestial roots.

Famous French astrophysicist Daniel Kunth invites you on a linguistic and scientific journey through space and time to explore these forgotten origins. You will be astonished to rediscover cosmic language hidden in plain sight through this wonderful collection of historical and cultural stories, famous idioms and delightful puns, along with the real science behind each one. Elena Terlevich is a well known professional astronomer working at INAOE in Mexico, an honorary Professor at La Plata University in Argentina and a regular visitor at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (UK).

Requiring no prior knowledge in astronomy or linguistics, this book's universal contentsinvite the reader to ponder how our observations of the night sky have shaped our modern tongue and customs.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

許多人可能不知道，我們的現代語言中包含了無數受到人類對宇宙觀察啟發的詞彙。我們現在使用的詞語，如「zenith」（天頂）、 「Monday」（星期一）、 「disaster」（災難）、 「dog days」（酷熱的日子）、 「starfish」（海星）、 「lunatic」（瘋子）、流感等，卻很少考慮到它們的天文根源。

著名的法國天體物理學家 Daniel Kunth 邀請您展開一段穿越時空的語言與科學之旅，探索這些被遺忘的起源。您將驚訝地重新發現隱藏在眼前的宇宙語言，透過這本精彩的歷史與文化故事、著名成語和有趣雙關語的合集，以及每一個背後的真實科學。Elena Terlevich 是一位知名的專業天文學家，任職於墨西哥的 INAOE，並擔任阿根廷拉普拉塔大學的榮譽教授，還是英國劍橋天文學研究所的常客。

本書不需要任何天文學或語言學的先前知識，其普遍的內容邀請讀者思考我們對夜空的觀察如何塑造了我們的現代語言和習俗。

作者簡介

Daniel Kunth 77, is an astrophysicist emeritus from the CNRS. Specialist in the studies of dwarf galaxies, star formation, the search for distant galaxies, quasars (black holes), supernovae (implosion of a star and cosmology at the Institute of Astrophysics of Paris (IAP). As part of his profession, he traveled extensively to Chile, Europe for his observational projects joining the ESO (European Southern Observatory) observatories and making extensive use of the Hubble Space Telescope. All his life, Daniel Kunth considered that knowledge is only valuable if widely shared with the general public as it enlightens people in their role as citizens facing the world and the universe. This sharing of scientific knowledge was therefore expressed through writing books. In 1991 he has been at the initiative of the perennial national event "La Nuit des Etoiles" (Night of the stars). Daniel Kunth has also contributed to the writing of collective works and 200 publications in scientific journals. He regularly publishes articles in mainstream magazines and gives radio interviews. Elena Terlevich was born in Argentina, graduated in Astronomy at La Plata Observatory, and obtained a PhD in Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy (University of Cambridge UK) where she is now retired (although she works as a part time Professor at INAOE, Puebla, Mexico). Research interests are the physical conditions in extragalactic giant regions of star formation and observational Cosmology.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

丹尼爾·昆特（Daniel Kunth）77歲，是法國國家科學研究中心（CNRS）的名譽天體物理學家。他專注於矮星系、恆星形成、遙遠星系的搜尋、類星體（黑洞）、超新星（恆星的內爆）以及巴黎天體物理研究所（IAP）的宇宙學研究。在他的職業生涯中，他曾多次前往智利和歐洲進行觀測項目，參與歐洲南方天文台（ESO）的觀測，並廣泛使用哈勃太空望遠鏡。丹尼爾·昆特一生都認為，知識只有在廣泛分享給大眾時才有價值，因為這能啟發人們在面對世界和宇宙時作為公民的角色。因此，他通過寫書來表達這種科學知識的分享。1991年，他發起了全國性的持續活動「星空之夜」（La Nuit des Etoiles）。丹尼爾·昆特還參與了集體著作的撰寫，並在科學期刊上發表了200篇文章。他定期在主流雜誌上發表文章並接受廣播訪問。艾琳娜·特爾列維奇（Elena Terlevich）出生於阿根廷，在拉普拉塔天文台獲得天文學學位，並在劍橋大學天文學研究所獲得天體物理學博士學位，現已退休（雖然她在墨西哥普埃布拉的INAOE擔任兼職教授）。她的研究興趣包括星系外恆星形成的巨大區域中的物理條件和觀測宇宙學。

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