The formation of the solar system : theories old and new /
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| Author / Creator: | Woolfson, Michael M. (Michael Mark), author. |
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
| Imprint: | Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236813 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.