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'One stands in awe at the amount of scholarship recorded in these volumes ... This major work of reference should be in all university and public libraries, as well as in departmental science libraries. It will remain an important document as long as planetary science is practised.' Stuart Ross Taylor, Nature
'... this work is useful in offering many new and interesting perspectives on the development of ideas in Earth science and cosmology.' M. Woolfson, Physics World
'No set of astronomy textbooks is complete without at least one on the subject's history, and the three-volume set A History of Planetary Physics by Stephen Brush is destined to be a classic.' David Hughes, New Scientist
Book Description
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. Together, the three volumes that comprise A History of Modern Planetary Physics present a survey of these theories. Nebulous Earth follows the development of Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis, its connection with ideas about the interior of the Earth, and its role in the establishment of the "evolutionary" worldview that dominated science in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Brush also explores Saturn's rings, Poincaré's contributions to ideas about cosmic evolution, the use of seismology to probe the earth's core, and explanations of the Earth's magnetic field. This series will interest historians and philosophers of science as well as earth scientists and geologists.
A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Nebulous Earth (History of Modern Planetary Physics, Vol 1),Stephen G. Brush,Cambridge University Press,0521441714,Astronomy - Solar System,Core,Cosmology,Earth,History,Nebular hypothesis,Origin,Science,Science/Mathematics,Solar System,Cosmology & the universe,History of science,Science / History,Solar system--Origin
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