03092nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-71579-2 DE-He213 20251030114932.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250126s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031715792 978-3-031-71579-2 10.1007/978-3-031-71579-2 doi QC801-809 PHVG bicssc SCI032000 bisacsh PHVG thema Boschi, Lapo. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 90468 Our Concept of the Earth [electronic resource] : What We Know About Our Planet and How It Was Discovered / by Lapo Boschi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XVI, 850 p. 206 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The mass of the earth -- The structure of the earth: rotation, precession, cosmogony -- The forces that shape the earth: Neptunism vs. Plutonism -- The age of the earth -- The forces that shape the earth: shrinking, isostasy, drift -- The structure of the earth: seismology -- The forces that shape the earth: convection and plates -- Our concept of the earth -- Exercises: Further Food for Thought. With its new, unique look at the physics of the earth and at how this field got to where it is today, this is not a conventional textbook, but could easily be used as one. Designed to be understood by readers with no background in the earth sciences and only little previous knowledge of math and physics, Our Concept of the Earth differs from other geophysics books in that it places geo-scientific concepts in their historical context: ideas are presented in chronological order, according to the moment they emerged, one in response to the other, throughout the history of the discipline. In this way, the material covered in any given section of the book rests on simpler previously established concepts that are explained earlier in the book. The book is extremely self-contained and lends itself to being read from beginning to end, an experience that will captivate and even entertain a broad range of readers in academia and beyond. Geophysics. 69226 Geology. 65838 Earth sciences. 65010 Geophysics. 69226 Geology. 65838 Earth Sciences. 65010 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031715785 Printed edition: 9783031715808 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71579-2 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 66527 66527