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4 days ago · The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith W. W. Norton (2024) In the 1620s, King Charles I of England commissioned a Dutch water engineer, Cornelius Vermuyden, to drain the flat fenlands of East ...
3 days ago · The Burning Earth is billed as a “paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa”. In truth, it covers some of the same ground as Oxford historian...
3 days ago · “Living on Earth” begins with a set-piece: Godfrey-Smith returning from a diving trip in Western Australia’s Shark Bay, in a fossil-fuel burning car passing through the rust red landscape.
5 days ago · Earth - Accretion, Formation, Core: As the gas making up the solar nebula beyond the Sun cooled with time, mineral grains are thought to have condensed and aggregated to form the earliest meteoritic material.
4 days ago · Heliocentrism[a] (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center.
22 hours ago · Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. [4][5][6] Volcanic outgassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen.
1 day ago · While listing national goals, the President states, "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
