Posted on Monday, May 15, 2017
A History of the Solar System by Claudio Vita-Finzi
How did the Solar system form? What were its building blocks? How has it evolved? Those are a few of the questions that you can find an answer to in this book.
It's a short and delightful treatment of an interesting topic of the history of the solar system covering it's birth from a cloud of dust and gases, it's youth and how it might still evolve. The book is very detailed and written for a popular audience.
It takes a look at a variety of interactions in the solar system that have shaped it and continue to do it such as the interactions between planets and their moons.
The book's short length makes it ideal as an introduction.
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