An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
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Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civil…
Since its first publication, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. Now Harvard geochemist Charles La…
1. Observations of stars. 1.1. Locations of stars. 1.2. Stellar material. 1.3. Determining the distances of stars. 1.4. The temperature of stars. 1.5. Stellar radii. 1.6. Estimating stellar masses. 1.7. The physical properties of main-sequence stars. 1.8. Stellar spin rates 1.9.…