History of Modern Planetary Physics: Volume 1, Origin of Solar - Nebulous Earth

Klappentext Nebulous Earth follows the development of the nineteenth-century's most popular explanation for the origin of the solar system! Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis. Zusammenfassung Nebulous Earth follows the development of the nineteenth-century's most popular explanation for the origin of the solar system! Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Nebular Birth and Heat Death: 1. Introduction; 2. The Founders: Laplace and Herschel; 3. Followers and critics; 4. The Nebular Hypothesis and the evolutionary worldview; 5. Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth; 6. Saturn's rings (with C. W. F. Everitt and Elizabeth Garber); 7. Revisions of the Nebular Hypothesis, 1860-85; 8. Poincare and cosmic evolution; 9. The Nebular Hypothesis in the 20th century; Part II. Inside the Earth: 1. A journey to the center of the Earth; 2. Nineteenth-century debates: Solid, liquid or gas?; 3. Discovery of the Earth's core; 4. Chemical history of the core; 5. Geomagnetic secular variation (with S. K. Banerjee); 6. Time and tide; Index.

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• Autori: Stephen G. Brush, Stephen G. (University of Maryland Brush, Brush Stephen G.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521093217
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09321-7
• Pagine: 328
• Serie: History of Modern Planetary Ph
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Solar system: the Sun & planets, Solar system: the Sun and planets, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy