The Scale of Things: Mind-blowing Proportions Remarkable Ratios and Extraordinary Facts
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About this book
If the Sun is the size of a Grapefruit the Earth is a grain of sand then the distance between the two is a London bus. Scale is intriguing. Scale is everywhere. Scale is our experience of the world from our perception of time to physical distance to weights and measures. The human scale is 1:1 the point of reference. Everything is designed around it. Wealth is an example of scale so is a sculpture a building a planet or a molecule. Scale is a universal and timeless subject. The Scale of Things brings together facts and figures in a visual way embracing popular science space economics politics geography nature technology and architecture in an accessible and entertaining way. Fun and informative it will change the way you look at the world around you.
