The formation of the solar system [[electronic resource] ] : theories old and new / / Michael Woolfson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451132803321
• Autore: Woolfson M. M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press; Hackensack, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-86763-2; 9786611867638; 1-86094-841-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 523.2
• Soggetti: Stars; Electronic books.; Solar system Origin
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: Michael Woolfson traces the development of ideas about the origin of the Solar System from ancient times to 2007.

Annual egyptological bibliography = Bibliographie egyptologique annuelle = Jahrliche agyptologische Bibliographie 1984 / Compiled by L.M.J. Zonhoven with the collaboration of I. Hofmann

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00071521
• Autore: ZONHOVEN, L. M. J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: XI, 251 p. ; 25 cm
• ISBN: 90-7214-703-0
• Edizione: [Leiden : International Association of egyptologists]
• Descrizione fisica: In testa al front.: International Association of Egyptologists
• Altri autori (Persone): HOFMANN, Inge
• Disciplina: 016.932
• Soggetti: EGITTOLOGIA - Bibliografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia