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Life Science Library
Die Erde
Book 7 of the Life Nature Library.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
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About the author
Arthur Beiser
69 books35 followersArthur Beiser is an American physicist and geophysicist .
Arthur Beiser studied physics and received his PhD from New York University , where he later became an associate professor of physics. He was a Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where he focused on cosmic rays and magnetohydrodynamics in geophysics and astrophysics . He worked both theoretically and experimentally, taking part in expeditions to the observation of cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena to Alaska and the Pacific.
He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and chaired the Explorers Club's Committee on Space Exploration .
Beiser is known for numerous physics textbooks, but also published books on geology and sailing (he is a passionate sailor who sailed around Cape Horn and twice crossed the Atlantic in his sailing boat). His wife Germaine Beiser is also an author and co-author of physics textbooks.
Arthur Beiser studied physics and received his PhD from New York University , where he later became an associate professor of physics. He was a Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, where he focused on cosmic rays and magnetohydrodynamics in geophysics and astrophysics . He worked both theoretically and experimentally, taking part in expeditions to the observation of cosmic rays and magnetic phenomena to Alaska and the Pacific.
He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and chaired the Explorers Club's Committee on Space Exploration .
Beiser is known for numerous physics textbooks, but also published books on geology and sailing (he is a passionate sailor who sailed around Cape Horn and twice crossed the Atlantic in his sailing boat). His wife Germaine Beiser is also an author and co-author of physics textbooks.
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July 15, 2021
Very good book and inspiring for vhildren and students 🌷🌷🌻🌻
August 30, 2022
Reread books from my childhood (1)
July 16, 2011
The Earth (published in Germany as Die Erde, and in Brooklyn as Da Oit) is a kind of bridge between the LIFE Nature Library's most expansive (heh-heh) volume, The Universe, and the remainder of the series, which deals with strictly terrestrial phenomena (with the possible exception of Evolution). In addition to geology, the subjects of interest include solar-system astronomy, paleontology and (a brief foray into) ecology.
As always in the LIFE Nature Library, the presentation is clear and straightforward, and the photography magnificent. The science is more dated than average for the series—which, of course, is no fault of the author's. However, I was surprised to see plate tectonics get such short shrift. The theory was still not rock solid (heh-heh) in the early 1960s, but it is treated more or less as an unlikely hypothesis, and strong evidence in its favor is cited without the connections being made. Most prominent in this category is the fossil and other evidence showing that current polar landmasses were once near the equator, and vice versa; these data are explained by proposing that the Earth's axis has shifted wildly in the past.
As always in the LIFE Nature Library, the presentation is clear and straightforward, and the photography magnificent. The science is more dated than average for the series—which, of course, is no fault of the author's. However, I was surprised to see plate tectonics get such short shrift. The theory was still not rock solid (heh-heh) in the early 1960s, but it is treated more or less as an unlikely hypothesis, and strong evidence in its favor is cited without the connections being made. Most prominent in this category is the fossil and other evidence showing that current polar landmasses were once near the equator, and vice versa; these data are explained by proposing that the Earth's axis has shifted wildly in the past.
September 12, 2010
Sumpah. Baca buku ini di umur 12 tahun bukan ide yang buruk. serius. Jadi kangen baca buku ini lagi..
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