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The Titius-Bode Law of Planetary Distances

Its History and Theory

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1972
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Michael Martin Nieto
  • Editor: D. Ter Haar
  • Language: English

The Titius-Bode Law of Planetary Distances: Its History and Theory is a 15-chapter book that first discusses the prehistory of the Law from Kepler to Kant. The next chapter details… Read more

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The Titius-Bode Law of Planetary Distances: Its History and Theory is a 15-chapter book that first discusses the prehistory of the Law from Kepler to Kant. The next chapter details the formulation of the Titius-Bode Law. Subsequent chapters describe the Law's early successes and failures, early modifications of the Law, the Blagg-Richardson formulation, and the significance of the Law with respect to the origin of the solar system. Other chapters discuss the theories of all types that have been proposed to explain the ""classical Titius-Bode Law"", i.e. the geometric progression.

Table of contents


Foreword


1. Introduction


2. Historical Background


3. Formulation of the Law


4. Success with Uranus and the Asteroids


5. Neptune and Other Problems


6. Early Modifications of the Law


7. Blagg-Richardson Formulation


8. Evidence for the Law's Validity


9. Origin of the Solar System and Hoyle's Theory


10. Periods of the Law's Creation


11. Search for a Geometric Progression Theory


12. Electromagnetic Theories

A. Birkeland's Theory

B. Berlage's Electromagnetic Theories

C. Alfvén's Theories


13. Gravitational Theories

A. Schmidt's Theory

B. Egyed's Theory

C. Woolfson's Theory

D. Pendred's and Williams' Theory

E. Hills' Theory

F. Dole's Theory


14. Nebular Theories

A. Berlage's Nebular Theory

B. The von Weizsacker Theory

C. Modifications of the von Weizsäcker Theory

D. Kuiper's Theory


15. Conclusion

A. Review

B. Outlook

References

Author-Name Index

Subject Index

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  • Language: English

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