Abstract:Having dealt with some of the tools and key concepts to which we will return as we develop the history of Earth and the other planets, we are ready now to consider that history. Five centuries after t...Having dealt with some of the tools and key concepts to which we will return as we develop the history of Earth and the other planets, we are ready now to consider that history. Five centuries after the beginning of the European Renaissance, humanity's explorations of Earth and the cosmos have exposed an intriguing, perhaps profound, paradox. Earth and the other planets of the solar system seem to be explainable as manifestations of common physical processes that have operated over very small and very large scales, to produce a range of cosmic phenomena. In this sense we are neither special nor particularly important in the grand scheme of things.Read More
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-10-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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