# Cosmic View **Domain:** Education / Visual Scale **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Kees Boeke]], [[Powers of Ten]], [[Scalar Nesting]] --- ## Definition _Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps_ is Kees Boeke's 1957 book using successive changes of scale to connect an ordinary scene with astronomical and microscopic structures. ## Corpus Context The book is the direct conceptual ancestor of [[Powers of Ten]] and an important source for [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]'s scalar nesting. ## Relationships [[Kees Boeke]], [[Powers of Ten]], [[Scalar Nesting]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]