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Nebulous Earth : the origin of the solar system and the core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys
- Title
- Nebulous Earth : the origin of the solar system and the core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys / Stephen G. Brush.
- Author
- Brush, Stephen G.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QB601 .B89 1996 v.1 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- A history of modern planetary physics ; v. 1
- Brush, Stephen G. History of modern planetary physics ; v. 1.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-299) and indexes.
- Contents
- The founders: Laplace and Herschel -- Followers and critics -- The Nebular Hypothesis and the evolutionary worldview -- Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth -- Saturn's rings / C.W.F. Everitt and Elizabeth Garber -- Revisions of the Nebular Hypothesis, 1860-1885 -- Poincare and cosmic evolution -- The Nebular Hypothesis in the 20th century -- A journey to the center of the Earth -- Nineteenth-century debates: solid, liquid, or gas? -- Discovery of the Earth's core -- Chemical history of the core -- Geomagnetic secular variation / S.K. Banerjee -- Time and tide.
- ISBN
- 0521441714 (hc)
- LCCN
- 95032975
- OCLC
- ocm32854824
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries