Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 213 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. Planets > Rotation
2. Erdrotation
3. Änderung
4. Katastrophentheorie
5. Earth (Planet) > Rotation
6. Earth (Planet)

Contents

1. 1. A new dawn for old ideas. Which way does the sun rise? ; Disasters and fairy tales ; A puzzling past ; Ice, sea, and floods ; Violent universe; violent solar system ; The beginnings of a revolution -- 2. How to turn the Earth upside-down. The rotating universe ; Linear and rotational motion ; A problem with planets ; The way bodies rotate ; Beach-balls and tippe tops ; The view from the tippe top ; Inverting the Earth ; The source of torque -- 3. The Earth's magnetism. The origin of the geomagnetic field ; Behaviour of the field ; Magnetic vases and rocks ; The sea-bed tape recorder ; Reversal of the Earth's field ; Reversal mechanisms ; Reversing the Earth -- 4. Reversing the Sun and the stars. Days and seasons ; Before and after ; An odd sort of day ; Evidence ; How to work miracles ; Eclipses and hoaxes ; Upside-down stars and seasons ; Solid grounds -- 5. The death of species. Appearances and disappearances ; Mammoths ; Dinosaurs ; Iridium ; Hot and cold ; Back to the tippe top -- 6. The flood. The trouble with Africa ; Local floods, or, world-wide catastrophes? ; The distribution of flood legends ; Floods from the heavens ; How to produce the flood ; The flood proper ; Geological evidence -- 7. Moving lands. New concepts ; Ideas revised ; Atlantis lost ; A geological impossibility ... ; ... and impossible maps ; Atlantis back on the map -- 8. Aeons ago. Past and present ; From the bottom ; The regrowth of astronomy ; The old order ; Two suns ; Stone circles -- 9. Slices of time. Instant coal ; Crisis and catastrophe ; Ice ages ; Sea and air reversals ; A change in the weather ; Layer on layer ; Update -- 10. The birth of planets. Problem and questions ; Time scales ; Formation of the solar system -- 11. Summary.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 196-203.