Résumé
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‘My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place, nor is my whole estate upon the fortune of this present year. Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.’ [Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice] Why is the merchant so sad? Could it be because he and his assets are too secure? Could chance, so effectively harnessed, engender melancholy? I leave to Shakespeare the task of reading his merchant’s soul, and pray he will not question me about how we approach the hazards, dangers and risks associated with another kind of navigation today, whose backdrop is the horizon, interplanetary space. Here, it is not a question of explaining control or technological prevention, of elaborating the sociology or the anthropology of it all, but more simply of examining fifty or so years of history to engage reflections which the most indulgent – or the most enthusiastic? – of readers will be bold and considerate enough call philosophical. But I pray the others not to worry, and to forgive me: the following pages are the work of a Terrestrial who loves to dream of the sky, who has been lucky enough to meet those men and women, heirs of one of the dreams most deeply inscribed in the imagination and the flesh of our humanity, who have learned to ride on the clouds, to brave the hazards of the cosmos. And this Terrestrial, who has never put his wings to the test of the sun’s ardour or braved the void of cosmic infinity, has at least realized that these navigators of space do not feel downhearted...
Auteur
Caractéristiques
Éditeur : Editions du Cerf
Publication : 23 mai 2013
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : DRM Adobe (ePub)
Taille(s) : 983 ko (ePub)
Langue(s) : Français
Code(s) CLIL : 3651, 4046
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9782204108768
EAN13 (papier) : 9782204097734
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