In this blog on the history of discovering the science of the Earth as a physical object I begin in antiquity with the philosopher Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276–194 BCE). He became first enquirer to arrive at a truly spectacular evidence-based result in Earth science: an estimate of the size of the Earth. An all-round scholar, […]
Read MoreWilliam Nellis author of Ultracondensed Matter by Dynamic Compression, 2017, discusses how the discoveries of NASA's Voyager Mission changed what we thought we knew about the magnetic fields of gas giants Neptune and Uranus.
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