[Gutenberg 33073] • The Arm Chair
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- Authors
- Unknown
- Publisher
- Pythagoras Publishing
- Tags
- society of friends -- poetry
- Date
- 2013-12-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.03 MB
- Lang
- en
The purpose of the Arm Chair Astronomy series is to make available well-written essays in popular astronomy written by expert astronomers and astrophysicists.
Volume Three of the Arm Chair Astronomy Series features The Birth of Planets, by George Gamow. This essay is an excerpt from his popular science book, One, Two, Three … Infinity.
This essay provides a lovely and very readable description of how the planets in our solar system came into being, with a special emphasis on the Kant-Laplace-Weizsäcker Nebular Model of the formation of the planetary system.
To advance the reading and understanding, Guided Notes are provided with this essay in the series.