A History of Modern Planetary Physics
Transmuted Past
Series: History of Modern Planetary Physics; 2;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Volume 2:The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 February 1996
- ISBN 9780521552134
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages146 pages
- Size 234x10x156 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Transmuted Past summarizes the attempts to estimate the age of the Earth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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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. The three volumes that together make up A History of Modern Planetary Physics present a survey of these theories. The age of the Earth has been one of the most disputed numbers in science since the seventeenth century. Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the twentieth century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Professor Brush also offers perspectives on the changing reputation of planetary science relative to the 'pure' sciences, such as physics, and a comparison of history and geology as ways of studying the past.
Review of the hardback: '...&&&160;can be highly recommended as a reference on the history of plantogonies.' Dr K. Regenauer-Lieb, Meteorite
Table of Contents:
Part I. Earth/History: 1. Introduction; 2. History and geology as ways of studying the past; 3. Kelvin and geological time; 4. Planetary science: from underground to underdog; Part II. Time and the Elements: 5. Cosmic evolution of matter; 6. Geochronology in the 20th century; 7. Stellar evolution and the origin of the elements.
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