A Theory of Earth's Origin: Four LecturesThis book was originally published in 1949 and consists of four lectures which were delivered at the Academy of Sciences Geophysical Institute in 1948 on the author's hypothesis of the genesis of the Earth and other planets. |
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition | 5 |
Authors Preface to the Second Edition | 7 |
Lecture I Present State of the ProblemFormulation of the ProblemFundamental Ideas and Facts | 9 |
Lecture 2 Fundamental Regularities of the Planetary Systemthe Result of GasDust Cloud Evolution | 37 |
Lecture 3 The Problem of the Origin of the GasDust Cloud | 79 |
Lecture 4The Planet Earth | 101 |
Appendix I | 125 |
Appendix II | 128 |
Appendix III | 129 |
Bibliography of Papers on the Schmidt Theory | 131 |
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