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The Earth's Beginning

Chapter 1: THE EARTH’S BEGINNING
By Robert S. Ball
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A concise survey of hypotheses for the solar system's origin, presenting the nebular theory and examining the difficulty of sustaining solar heat over geological time. The text contrasts contraction-based explanations with recently discovered internal energy sources, arguing that radioactive processes could supply long-term solar radiation. It marshals geological and chemical evidence, including estimates of ocean salinity accumulation, to support great antiquity, and reviews observational advances that elevate the importance of spiral nebulae. Astronomy, geology, and emerging experimental physics are woven together to explain planetary formation and the persistence of solar energy.

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Title: The Earth's Beginning

Author: Robert S. Ball

Release date: March 17, 2019 [eBook #59080]

Language: English

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THE EARTH’S BEGINNING

 

WORKS BY
SIR ROBERT S. BALL,
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS.

With 24 Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 10s. 6d.

THE EARTH’S BEGINNING.

With 4 Coloured Plates and Numerous Illustrations. New Edition. 7s. 6d.

THE STORY OF THE SUN.

With 11 Full Page Coloured and other Plates and Numerous Illustrations. 7s. 6d.

STAR-LAND.

Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens With Rembrandt Frontispiece and 94 Illustrations in Text. 7s. 6d.

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, London,
New York, Toronto & Melbourne.

AN ENGLISH SUNSET TINGED BY KRAKATOA.
(From a Drawing made at Chelsea at 4.40 p.m. on Nov. 26th, 1883, by Mr. W. Ascroft.)

THE
Earth’s Beginning
BY
SIR ROBERT S. BALL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry in the University of Cambridge,
Author of “Star-Land,” “The Story of the Heavens,”
etc. etc.
WITH FOUR COLOURED PLATES AND
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW EDITION
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
MCMIX
First Edition October 1901.
Reprinted December 1901, 1903.
Enlarged Edition 1909.
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