| Description |
xvi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
To make a beginning -- Part One : Cosmos -- On the nature of matter -- Of stars and space -- Why the sky doesn't fall -- On the birth of planets -- Part Two : Earth -- On the reckoning of time -- Our restless earth -- The architectural evolution of the earth -- Of air and water -- How the air became breathable -- Part Three : Life -- The beginnings of life -- How the descendants of common ancestors became different -- The greening of the lands -- The progressive unfolding of Early Animal Life -- Dinosaurs, birds, and mannals -- Part Four : Man -- The ascent of man -- Signals from space -- Spaceship earth today -- Posterity's world -- Perchance to dream |
| Summary |
The story of the do-development of Earth's ir, water, crustal rocks, climate, and life in cosmic prespective as a vantage point from which to view the present and future prospects of mankind. Earth has come to be what it is as theresult of a sequence of historical interactions stretching over billions of years |
| Analysis |
Cosmology |
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Earth sciences |
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Life sciences |
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Universe to 1977 |
| Notes |
Text, ill., port on lining papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| SUBJECT |
Earth sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85802903
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| Subject |
Biology.
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Cosmology.
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Earth sciences.
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Evolution.
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Life sciences.
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Life -- Origin.
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Cosmology
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| LC no. |
78002666 |
| ISBN |
0300021461 |
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