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The formation of the solar system : theories old and new /
This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the field. Unlike other authors, Michael Woolfson focuses on the formation of the solar system, engaging the reader in an intelligent yet accessible discussion...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | 2nd edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Introduction to the Second Edition; Prologue: The Dreamer; Part I General Background; Chapter 1 Theories Come and Theories Go; 1.1 What is Science?; 1.2 The Problem of Cosmogony; 1.3 New Theories for Old; Chapter 2 Measuring Atoms and the Universe; 2.1 Measuring Things in Everyday Life; 2.2 Science and Everyday Life; 2.3 Small Things Beyond Our Ken; 2.4 Measuring Things in the Solar System; 2.5 Large Things Beyond Our Ken; Part II Enlightenment; Chapter 3 Greek Offerings; 3.1 Even Before the Ancient Greeks; 3.2 Plato and Aristotle.
- 3.3 Aristarchus
- A Man Ahead of his Time3.4 Eratosthenes
- The Man who Measured the Earth; 3.5 Ptolemy and the Geocentric Solar System; Chapter 4 The Shoulders of Giants; 4.1 The Refugees; 4.2 Nicolaus Copernicus and a Heliocentric Solar System; 4.3 Tycho Brahe
- The Man with a Golden Nose; 4.4 Johannes Kepler
- A Scientific and Mathematical Genius; 4.5 Galileo Galilei
- Observation versus Faith; 4.6 Isaac Newton
- And All was Light; Part III The Solar System: Features and Problems; Chapter 5 The Sun and the Planets; 5.1 The Sun; 5.2 Types of Planet and their Distribution.
- 5.3 The Major Planets5.4 The Terrestrial Planets; Chapter 6 Satellites and Rings; 6.1 General Comments about Satellites; 6.2 The Satellites of Jupiter; 6.3 The Satellites of Saturn; 6.4 The Satellites of Uranus; 6.5 The Satellites of Neptune; 6.6 The Earth's Satellite, the Moon; 6.7 The Satellites of Mars; 6.8 Ring Systems; 6.8.1 The rings of Saturn; 6.8.2 The rings of Uranus; 6.8.3 The rings of Jupiter; 6.8.4 The rings of Neptune; Chapter 7 Smaller Bodies of the Solar System; 7.1 The Hunt for a Missing Planet; 7.2 Asteroids Aplenty; 7.3 Meteorites
- Chips Off the Old Block.
- 7.3.1 Stony meteorites7.3.2 Iron meteorites; 7.3.3 Stony-iron meteorites; 7.4 Comets Aplenty; 7.4.1 The structure of comets; 7.4.2 The orbits of comets; 7.5 The Kuiper Belt and Dwarf Planets; Chapter 8 The Problem to be Solved; 8.1 Knowledge and Time; 8.2 Very Basic Requirements for a Solution; Part IV Early Theories; Chapter 9 The French Connection; 9.1 Some Early Theoretical and Observational Developments; 9.2 Laplace and his Spinning Cloud; 9.3 The Problem with a Spinning Cloud; Chapter 10 American Catherine-Wheels; 10.1 Spirals in the sky; 10.2 Making a Catherine-Wheel.
- 10.3 Objections to the Chamberlin-Moulton TheoryChapter 11 British Big Tides; 11.1 The Jeans Tidal Theory; 11.2 Jeffreys' Objections; 11.3 Russell's Objection; 11.4 Spitzer's Objection; 11.5 A Later Objection; Chapter 12 Russian Cloud Capture
- With British Help; 12.1 The Schmidt Model; 12.2 Lyttleton's Modification of the Accretion Theory; Chapter 13 German Vortices
- With a Little French Help; 13.1 First Ideas About Vortices; 13.2 The von Weizsäcker Vortex Theory; 13.3 Objections to the Vortex Idea; Chapter 14 McCrea's Floccules; 14.1 Producing Stars and Planets Together.