Луна. История будущего

Masshtabnyĭ i detalʹnyĭ portret Luny v faktakh, t͡sifrakh, mifakh, romanakh i traktatakh.Uvlekatelʹnai͡a istorii͡a o tom, kak chelovechestvo mechtalo dostatʹ do Luny, kak v kont͡se kont͡sov, dostalo i kak teperʹ vpolne serʹezno sobiraetsi͡a na neĭ zhitʹ.Luna - pervoe nebesnoe telo, krome nasheĭ sobstvennoĭ planety, na kotoroe stupila noga zemli͡anina, i, kak nagli͡adno demonstriruet Morton, sudi͡a po vsemu, pervoe nebesnoe telo, kotoroe my koloniziruem. Prichem proizoĭdet ėto kuda ranʹshe, chem nam kazhetsi͡a. No kniga Mortona ne tolʹko o budushchem, no i o proshlom. Ėto istorii o tekh, kto, nesmotri͡a na mnogochislennye oshibki v raschetakh, neuverennostʹ, nasmeshki i neponimanie, a poroĭ i pri͡amye zaprety prodolzhal s nadezhdoĭ i neskonchaemym nauchnym interesom vsmatrivatʹsi͡a v nochnoe nebo, po kotoromu tysi͡acheletii͡ami netoroplivo proplyvala Luna, edinstvennyĭ sputnik nasheĭ planety v bezbrezhnom kosmose. Privodi͡a neveroi͡atnoe kolichestvo faktov, samykh raznykh gipotez, svi͡azannykh s vozniknoveniem Luny, sostavom eë grunta, razmerom eë kraterov, osobennosteĭ eë orbity i tekh izmeneniĭ, kotorye ėti osobennosti vyzyvai͡ut na Zemle, Oliver Morton poroĭ vdrug meni͡aet ugol zrenii͡a i daet nam nasladitʹsi͡a sovershenno drugoĭ Lunoĭ: Lunoĭ poėtov i prorokov, mechtateleĭ i vli͡ublennykh, Lunoĭ, kotorui͡u mozhno uvidetʹ, prosto vyĭdi͡a nochʹi͡u na ulit͡su, Lunoĭ, kotorai͡a, nesmotri͡a na vse nashi znanii͡a o neĭ, ostaetsi͡a po-prezhnemu zagadochnoĭ i v chem-to nepostizhimoĭ.

A large-scale and detailed portrait of the Moon in facts, figures, myths, novels and treatises.A fascinating story about how humanity dreamed of reaching the Moon, how in the end, it got enough and how now it is quite seriously going to live on it.The moon is the first celestial body, other than our own planet, that an earthman has set foot on, and, as Morton clearly demonstrates, it seems to be the first celestial body that we colonize. And it will happen much sooner than we think. But Morton's book is not only about the future, but also about the past. These are the stories of those who, despite numerous errors in calculations, uncertainty, ridicule and misunderstanding, and sometimes outright prohibitions, continued to look with hope and endless scientific interest at the night sky, on which the Moon, the only satellite of our planet in the vast cosmos, slowly sailed for thousands of years. Giving an incredible number of facts, a variety of hypotheses related to the origin of the Moon, the composition of its soil, the size of its craters, the features of its orbit and the changes that these features cause on Earth, Oliver Morton sometimes suddenly changes the angle of view and allows us to enjoy a completely different Moon: The Moon of poets and prophets, dreamers and lovers, the Moon that you can see just by going out at night, the Moon that, despite all our knowledge about it, remains mysterious and in some ways incomprehensible.