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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. Did the Earth and other
planets form as a byproduct of a natural process that formed the Sun? Did the
solar system come into being as the result of a catastrophic encounter of two
stars? Together, the three volumes that make up 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, Poincare'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. Nebulous Earth explores the history of ideas about the Earth's interior
from the 19th century through the 1960s.
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