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Worlds in the making: The evolution of the universe

Chapter 2: WORLDS IN THE MAKING
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The text presents physical explanations for the origin and evolution of Earth and other celestial bodies, linking terrestrial phenomena to astronomical processes. It examines volcanoes, earthquakes, interior heat, atmospheric composition, and the factors that govern planetary habitability and climatic change. It develops solar physics, treating radiation, sunspots, prominences, and the role of radiation pressure in shaping cometary tails, dust, and exchanges of matter. The work addresses aurorae and magnetic disturbances, meteors and meteorites, and draws on observations of nebulae and stellar spectra to discuss nebular structures and collision-driven cosmogony. Physical laws and thermodynamics are applied throughout to account for large-scale cosmic evolution.

WORLDS IN THE MAKING

THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE

BY
SVANTE ARRHENIUS
DIRECTOR OF THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL NOBEL INSTITUTE, STOCKHOLM

TRANSLATED BY DR. H. BORNS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMVIII

Copyright, 1908, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.
Published March, 1908.