The Biosphere

Lightly technical and axiomatic. While dated on some points, in its description of mechanism, and in laying a foundation for argument, the work is exquisite (if not elegant, as such). Highly recommended for anyone who wants a "what," and a "how," with their "why." For the "who, where and when," (with reservations on the "who") refer to Teillhard for the basics. Strange brothers bearing a novel fruit.

I have had the honour of reading numerous papers by Vernadsky and find as always with genius, a hidden underlaying dimension of truth. The Biosphere is without hesitation a work of scientific spirituality as well as pure scientific genius! In a time when environmental destruction is ramp, and politically controled scientific stupidity proliferates, logical hope and science is at hand. With Vernadsky science personifies a bridge between life and its meaning. Science is indeed the search for truth, and Vernadsky biosphere is a must for youth!!!!!

An interesting read and exploration of ideas that came from an era that was mostly not revealed to western eyes until recently. Verdansky,s perception of living earth systems is breathtaking given that this book was written well before such scientists as James Lovelocks Giai Trilogy ( Mother Earth Concept).Verdansky,s concept of biosphere has permeated into the natural sciences even through his Russian seclusion.The book is an annotated version and at times a little difficult to read but worth the read.

The author was clearly one of the early pioneers along the path to a new way of perceiving reality. Clearly not the only one, he belonged to the first first straggling nodes of the emerging global network that would slowly set in motion the dynamics that would generate a perception of the cosmos as a stochastic process that has neither beginning nor end and the human species as being amongst a myriad perceptual mechanisms generated by this process in order to perceive the potential pathways to its own becoming, being and non being, and which at the time included such elements as Fitjof Capra, Arne Naess, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela and a few others.The history of the emergence of this unitive or non dual perception of the cosmos is a long one that goes back to the beginning of the emergence of homo sapiens, that has as yet to be told and when it finally is set down in writing Vernadsky's contribution will surely find acknowledgement therein. While the emergence of such a history may not be far away the works of Vernadsky will have to await its coming in order to take its due recognition as an important step in the evolution of human perceptual capacity.The network of those with such perceptual capacities (sometimes wrongly called systems thinkers) is growing and the collective perceptions that it has begun to generate have begun to surpass anything that the perception of any single human individual is able to generate. The pathway to the recognition of this network and its engagement of earthprocesses has been laid by the concept of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network now actively functioning with global scope. Vernadsky may never have realized that his perceptions of the cosmos were the precursors of a new world that would lead to a new lease of life for the human species and an opportunity for the transformation of its global civilization into a sustainable one and for the facilitation of lifes conscious evolution through and beyond human being and its spread throughout the cosmos.

Good book! I love edition of this book. Wonderful condition!

Have only viewed. It's on my read list

Really an incredible text, very hard to explain the effect it has on you, but it really changes your whole worldview if you really stick with it.

Uno scienziato di grandissimo livello e un libro premonitore. Una visione generale della fisica e della biologia. Referenze bibliografiche di grande interesse. Vivamente consigliato.

a good book