TY  - BOOK
AU  - Croll,James
TI  - Discussions on Climate and Cosmology
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Earth sciences
SN  - 9781139506120 (ebook)
AV  - QC861 .C76 1885
U1  - 551.6 23
PY  - 1885///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Climatology
KW  - Cosmology
N2  - The cause of the ice ages was a puzzle to nineteenth-century climatologists. One of the most popular theories was that the affected continents must somehow have been hugely elevated and, like mountains, iced over. However, in this 1885 study of the problem, James Croll (1821-90) argues that such staggering movement would have been impossible. Instead, he puts forward a new theory: that the eccentricity of the earth's orbit changes at regular intervals over long periods, creating 'great secular summers and winters'. Adopting a meticulous approach to the facts, he disproves a host of well-established notions across several disciplines and makes some remarkable deductions, including the effect of ocean currents on climate, the temperature of space, and even the age of the sun. With a focus on logical argument and explanation rather than mathematics, his book remains fascinating and accessible to students in the history of science
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506120
ER  -