Earth and sky

"Earth and Heaven" - Alexander Volkov’s book about the first round -the -world travels, discoveries, astronomy and amazing people who have changed the course of history.
Today, each student knows that the Earth has the shape of a ball. But before, people thought that our planet is flat and rested on three whales.
The first sailors who settled in the open ocean were called madmen. They were assured that the ship, which sailed to the edge of the earth, would fall into the abyss and die. The first scientists who claimed that the land was round, threatened with the death penalty if they do not renounce their ideas.
But people who ahead of their time gradually changed the map of the Earth and ideas about it. A person learns his planet. He paves the way into space and continues to solve the endless secrets of the universe.
The publication comes out with color illustrations by Boris Kyshtimov.
For secondary school age.

The book was published in the non-fiction series for children and adolescents "Pythagorian pants".

Author: Alexander Melentievich Volkov (1891-1977), writer, playwright, translator. The most famous works of the writer are the story from the cycle "Wizard of the Emerald City". Volkov was also engaged in the popularization of science and released several popular science books for schoolchildren. In the Publishing House of Meshcheryakov, his books" Wonderful Ball "and the Foot" Foot "(series" Tuopmum (clay tablet)) were previously published.

Artist: Boris Pavlovich Kyshtimov (1927-2007), artist, illustrator of children"s books.

Three reasons for acquiring this book:
1. Alexander Volkov is a famous writer, a popularizer of science.
2. Drawings by Boris Kyshtimov, masters of book illustration.
3. The book can be used as additional material in classes in high school