Cosmophobia: Urania’s Lament and Lessons Learned
NASA astrobiologist David Morrison coined the term cosmophobia – fear of the cosmos – in response to the plethora of 2012 disaster scenarios that depict Urania, the muse of astronomy, as a wicked destroyer rather than a beautiful inspiration. The purveyors of these scenarios relied on the public’s l...
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Milano University Press
2013-05-01
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| Col·lecció: | Altre Modernità |
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| Accés en línia: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2979 |