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