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January 28, 2003
© Stephen G. Brush

Nebulous Earth:
The Origin of the Solar System and the Core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys

by Stephen G. Brush

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-44171-4 (hardcover).

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CONTENTS

    PART 1: NEBULAR BIRTH AND HEAT DEATH
  1. Introduction
  2. The founders: Laplace and Herschel
  3. Followers and critics
  4. The Nebular Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Worldview
  5. Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth
  6. Saturn's rings (with C.W.F.Everitt and Elizabeth Garber)
  7. Revisions of the Nebular Hypothesis, 1860-1885
  8. Poincaré and cosmic evolution
  9. The Nebular Hypothesis in the 20th century
    PART 2: INSIDE THE EARTH
  1. A journey to the center of the Earth
  2. 19th-century debates: Solid, liquid, or gas?
  3. Discovery of the Earth's core
  4. Chemical history of the core
  5. Geomagnetic secular variation (with S. K. Banerjee)
  6. Time and tide

Reference list and citation index
Index