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Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific -- and sometimes religious -- heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists and many in the public grew to acknowledge the truth of each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science, which raises profound and uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we have altered the climate of an entire planet and threaten the future of human civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but science can be trusted. In the process, astonishing ideas are born and, over time, take root.

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• Plný název: Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences
• Podnázev: From Heresy to Truth
• Autor: James Lawrence Powell
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 384
• EAN: 9780231164481
• ISBN: 0231164483
• ID: 04559075
• Nakladatelství: Columbia University Press
• Hmotnost: 662 g
• Rozměry: 160 × 230 × 25 mm
• Datum vydání: 23. December 2014

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