Charlie Edmondson audiobook demo - A Short History of The World
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (General)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Hello, My name's Charlie Edmondson and this is my audiobook voice riel. A short history of the world by hate G. Wells, the world in space. The storey of our world is a storey that is still very imperfectly known a couple of 100 years ago. Men possess the history of little more than the last 3000 years. What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation over a large part of the civilised world. It was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4000 for BC. The authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year. This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith. Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers, and it is universally recognised that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time. Of course, there may be deception in these appearances as a room, maybe made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end but that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or 7000 years may be regarded as an altogether exploded idea. The Earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere, slightly compressed orange fashion with a diameter of nearly 8000 miles. It's Pericles shape has been known, at least to a limited number of intelligent people for nearly 2500 years. But before that time it was supposed to be flat and various ideas, which now seem fantastic. We're entertained about its relations to the sky and the stars and planets. We know now that it rotates upon its axis, which is about 24 miles shorter than its equatorial diameter every 24 hours. And that is the cause of the Alternations of day and night that it's circles about the sun in a slightly distorted and slowly variable over path. In a year, its distance from the sun varies between 91 a half million's at its nearest and 94 a half 1,000,000 miles about the earth circles. A smaller sphere, the moon at an average distance of 239,000 miles, Earth and moon are not the only bodies to travel around the sun. They're also the planets, not Korean Venus at distances of 36 67 millions of miles and beyond the circle of the earth and disregarding a belt of numerous smaller bodies. The Planetoid Sze their remarks Jupiter Satin Uranus, a napkin that mean distances of 141 483 886 1782 and 1793 millions of miles, respectively. The's figures in millions of miles very difficult for the mind to grasp. It may help the reader's imagination if we reduce the sun and planets, tow a smaller, more conceivable scale if then we represent our thas is a little ball of one inch diameter. The sun would be a big globe nine feet across on 323 yards away. That is about 1/5 of a mile. Four or five minutes. Walking the moon would be a small P two feet and 1/2 from the world. Between the Earth and sun. There would be the two inner planets, mercury and Venus at distances of 125 and 250 yards from the sun all round. And about these bodies, there would be emptiness until you came to Mars 175 feet beyond the Earth. Jupiter, nearly a mile away, A foot in diameter, Saturn, little smaller, two miles off Uranus, four miles off on Neptune, six miles off, then nothingness on nothingness. Except the small particles and drifting scraps of continue waited vapour for thousands of miles. The nearest starter Earth on this scale would be 40,000 miles away. These figures will serve, perhaps to give one some conception of the immense emptiness of space in which the drama of life goes on.
Tags
Narrator, Animated, Easygoing, Informative, Playful, British (General)