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His book Evolution of the protoplanetary cloud and formation of the Earth and the planets, [32] which was translated to English in 1972, had a long-lasting effect on how scientists thought about the formation of the planets. [33] In this book, almost all major problems of the planetary formation process were formulated, and some of them were ...
The Scientific Revolution was enabled by advances in book production. [18] [19] Before the advent of the printing press, introduced in Europe in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, there was no mass market on the continent for scientific treatises, as there had been for religious books. Printing decisively changed the way scientific knowledge was ...
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution is a 2009 book by anthropologists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending.Starting with their own take on the conventional wisdom that the evolutionary process stopped when modern humans appeared, the authors explain the genetic basis of their view that human evolution is accelerating, illustrating it with some examples.
For simplicity, Mars' period of revolution is depicted as 2 years instead of 1.88, and orbits are depicted as perfectly circular or epitrochoid. The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model ...
Theory of the Earth is a publication by James Hutton which laid the foundations for geology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In it he showed that the Earth is the product of natural forces. What could be seen happening today, over long periods of time, could produce what we see in the rocks.
The book also proved popular with political scientists embroiled in debates about whether a set of formulations put forth by a political scientist constituted a theory, or something else. [ 46 ] The changes that occur in politics , society and business are often expressed in Kuhnian terms, however poor their parallel with the practice of ...
In geology, catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope. [1] This contrasts with uniformitarianism (sometimes called gradualism), according to which slow incremental changes, such as erosion, brought about all the Earth's geological features.
Kuhn would later develop his theory regarding the development of science in his later work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” [6] which was originally published in 1962 and remains his best known work. In this work, he focuses on a one particular example; namely the Copernican Revolution, which is a paradigmatic example of such a ...