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The formation of the solar system : theories old and new / Michael Woolfson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolfson, Michael M. (Michael Mark)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stars.
- Solar system--Origin.
- Solar system.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Michael Woolfson traces the development of ideas about the origin of the Solar System from ancient times to 2007.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Theories come and theories go
- ch. 2. Measuring atoms and the universe
- ch. 3. Greek offerings
- ch. 4. The shoulders of giants
- ch. 5. A voyage of discovery to the solar system
- ch. 6. The problem to be solved
- ch. 7. The French connection
- ch. 8. American Catherine-Wheels
- ch. 9. British big tides
- ch. 10. Russian could capture-with British help
- ch. 11. German vortices-with a little French help
- ch. 12. McCrea's floccules
- ch. 13. What earlier theories indicate
- ch. 14. Disks around new stars
- ch. 15. Planets around other stars
- ch. 16. Disks around older stars
- ch. 17. What a theory should explain now
- ch. 18. The new Solar Nebula theory: the angular momentum problem
- ch. 19. Making planets top-down
- ch. 20. A bottom-up alternative
- ch. 21. Making planets faster
- ch. 22. Wandering planets
- ch. 23. Back to top-down
- ch. 24. This is the stuff that stars are made of
- ch. 25. Making dense cool clouds
- ch. 26. A star is born
- ch. 27. Close to the maddening crowd
- ch. 28. Close encounters of the stellar kind
- ch. 29. Ever decreasing circles
- ch. 30. How many planetary systems?
- ch. 31. Starting a family
- ch. 32. Tilting-but not as windmills
- ch. 33. The terrestrial planets raise problems!
- ch. 34. A British Bang theory: the earth and Venus
- ch. 35. Behold the wandering moon
- ch. 36. Fleet Mercury and warlike Mars
- ch. 37. Gods of the sea and the nether regions
- ch. 38. Bits and pieces
- ch. 39. Comets-the harbingers of doom!
- ch. 40. Making atoms with a biggish bang
- ch. 41. Is the capture theory valid?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611867638
- 9781281867636
- 1281867632
- 9781860948411
- 1860948413
- OCLC:
- 815742118
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