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It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond one's day-to-day experiments and look at the big picture and the origin of the Moon is a 'big picture' question par excellence. Perhaps it makes sense that William Hartmann, one of the two scientists who unraveled the Moon s biggest mystery, is not only a scientist but also a part-time artist and science fiction writer. It took someone with an artist s eye and a fiction writer s speculative temperament to see the big picture.
"This is a book about that big picture: the origin of the Moon, as interpreted by Hartmann and Alastair Cameron, the second patriarch of The Big Splat. It is also about a doomed planet called Theia, and a familiar one called Earth that used to look vastly different from today s Earth. But, most of all, it is about a long lineage of intellectual voyagers who began exploring the Moon long before Neil Armstrong planted his boot into the lunar dust."
(From the Introduction)
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Genesis Revised.
- A Highly Practical Stone.
- The Stone Star.
- Kepler Laughed.
- The Clockwork Solar System.
- Daughter Moon.
- Captive Moon.
- Sister Moon.
- Renaissance and Controversy.
- "A Little Science on the Moon".
- When Worlds Collide.
- The Kona Consensus.
- Introducing Theia.
- Appendix: Did We Really Go to the Moon?
- Glossary.
- References.
- Acknowledgments.
- Index.
Pressestimmen
"...this is a most useful and interesting book..."
(New Scientist)
Wiley & Sons, 2003, 240 S.
29,90 Euro
Hardcover, w. figs.
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