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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Autor principal: Kristine Larsen
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Milano University Press 2013-05-01
Colección:Altre Modernità
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Acceso en línea:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2979