The book details how humanity gradually understood the complex layers above our heads:

: Renaissance scientist Evangelista Torricelli, a disciple of Galileo, was the first to realize we live "submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air". To illustrate its mass, the air filling a space like Carnegie Hall weighs approximately 70,000 pounds .

25+ Copies Paperback An Ocean Of Air (Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere) by Gabrielle Walker, 9780156034142