A HISTORY OF MODERN PLANETARY PHYSICS: VOLUME 1, THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE CORE OF THE EARTH FROM LAPLACE TO JEFFREYS by Stephen G. Brush ( 9780521093217 )

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Title:

A HISTORY OF MODERN PLANETARY PHYSICS: VOLUME 1, THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE CORE OF THE EARTH FROM LAPLACE TO JEFFREYS
NEBULOUS EARTH

Volume:

v. 1

By:

Stephen G. Brush

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

052109321X

ISBN 13:

9780521093217

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 January, 2009

Pages:

328

Description:

Nebulous Earth follows the development of the nineteenth-century's most popular explanation for the origin of the solar system, Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis.

Synopsis:

Where did we come from? Before there was life there had to be something to live on - a planet, a solar system. During the past 200 years, astronomers and geologists have developed and tested several different theories about the origin of the solar system and the nature of the Earth. Did the Earth and other planets form as a by-product of a natural process that formed the Sun? Did the solar system come into being as the result of catastrophic encounter of two stars? Is the inside of the Earth solid, liquid or gaseous? The three volumes that make up A History of Modern Planetary Physics present a survey of these theories. Nebulous Earth follows the development of the nineteenth-century's most popular explanation for the origin of the solar system, Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis. This theory supposes that a flattened mass of gas extending beyond Neptune's orbit cooled and shrank, throwing off in the process successive rings that in time coalesced to form several planets.

Illustrations:

11 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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