Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps is a 1957 book by Dutch educator Kees Boeke that combines writing and graphics to explore many levels of size and structure, from the astronomically vast to the atomically tiny.
The idea was to draw pictures that would include ever-growing areas of space, to show how the Earth is located in an unfathomably enormous universe.
The ordinary photograph of a schoolgirl and a cat proves to be the starting point for an insightful visit to levels of reality that can only be imagined, and about which little may be known.
In his conclusion Boeke speculates that the imaginary voyage depicted may help "just a little" to make mankind realize the enormousness of the cosmic powers that the human race has begun to master.
He puts a blue whale into his graphics, incongruously lying alongside the girl and her cat, to give an idea of relative sizes.