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Cosmic View is an essay by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny. Originally published in 1957, the essay begins with a simple photograph of a Dutch girl sitting outside her school and holding a cat. The essay first backs up from the original photo, with graphics that include more and more of the vast reaches of space in which the girl is located. The essay then narrows in on the original picture, with graphics that show ever smaller areas until the nucleus of a sodium atom is reached. Boeke writes commentary on each graphic, along with introductory and concluding notes.
Boeke's clever essay attracted much attention and was included in Mortimer Adler's Gateway to the Great Books (1963) series. Many of the graphics are impressive realizations of the differences in size that lie hidden from our normal view. The graphics that show ever greater areas of the earth, for instance, are interesting precursors to the satellite photos now available on the Internet.
Boeke's essay/book is recognized in the credits of three short documentary films:
* Cosmic Zoom (1968) produced by the National Film Board of Canada
* Powers of Ten (1968, re-released 1977) by Charles and Ray Eames
* The IMAX film Cosmic Voyage (1996) produced for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
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