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A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars: a child's garden of infinity



Fishman and Greenberg move fluidly through different units — the length of your body, the height of the Burj Khalifa, the number of rabbits on Earth — and up and down different scales to kind of limber up the mind, get it thinking on an Eames-ish, Powers of Ten kind of way, until the scales start to expand in your consciousness, granting intuitive (if sometimes fleeting) glimpses of the astounding distances, eras, and quantities that make up the natural universe.

This is a delight of a science book, a marvel of a picture book.

A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars [Seth Fishman and Isabel Greenberg/Greenwillow Books]

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