Quest For Earth
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Quest For Earth
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Author : S.E. GILCHRIST
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Quest For Earth written by S.E. GILCHRIST and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Quest For Earth H
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Author : Usborne Publishing, Limited
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-05
Quest For Earth H written by Usborne Publishing, Limited and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05 with categories.
The Quest For The True Figure Of The Earth
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Author : Michael Rand Hoare
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
The Quest For The True Figure Of The Earth written by Michael Rand Hoare and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with History categories.
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.
Journey Into The Earth
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Author : John Townsend
language : en
Publisher: QEB Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Journey Into The Earth written by John Townsend and has been published by QEB Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Step inside for an earth shattering expedition! An urgent phone call comes in, it's Doctor Ludmila Popplecracker, the famous volcanologist! Drill down to the centre of the Earth to determine whether the supervolcano is about to erurpt. It's a dangerous mission but you're being depended on to collect vital information! Readers must use their problem-solving skills and geographical knowledge to navigate through four thrilling adventures. Geography Quest follows the popular Science and Rubik's Quest series. Questions are carefully chosen to address core geography subjects for the age group. Finding the answers enables readers to advance through the story, learning more about geography with every step they take. Clues are dotted along the way, and wrong turns will direct readers towards the right answer! A glossary explains geographical words and provides added reference material.
Earth Quest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Earth Quest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Earth sciences categories.
Pick Your Own Quest
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Author : Connor Hoover
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-26
Pick Your Own Quest written by Connor Hoover and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with categories.
You have the chance to find the Center of the Earth. Do you dare take the challenge?
Geography Quest Journey Into The Earth
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Author : John Townsend
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-16
Geography Quest Journey Into The Earth written by John Townsend and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-16 with Adventure stories categories.
Step inside for an earth shattering expedition! An urgent phone call comes in, it's Doctor Ludmila Popplecracker, the famous volcanologist! Drill down to the centre of the Earth to determine whether the supervolcano is about to erupt. It's a dangerous mission but you're being depended on to collect vital information! Readers must use their problem-solving skills and geographical knowledge to navigate their way through the thrilling adventure, learning more about geography with every page turned. Geography Quest follows the popular Maths Quest, Rubik Quest, Science Quest and History Quest series. Questions are carefully chosen to address important geographical subjects for the age group. Finding the answers enables readers to advance through the story, learning more about geography with every step taken. Clues are dotted along the way, and wrong turns will direct readers towards the right answer! A glossary explains geographical words and provides added reference material. The four titles in the Geography Quest series are: Journey into the Earth - 978-1-78493-009-7 Rapid River Rescue - 978-1-78493-010-3 Mountain Peak Peril - 978-1-78493-029-5 Deep Sea Danger - 978-1-78493-030-1
The Quest For Gaia
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Author : Kit Pedler
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 2012-04-01
The Quest For Gaia written by Kit Pedler and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Science categories.
Kit Pedler, the scientist who co-created the 'Doomwatch' television series to warn us of the dangers of technology, presents his vision of a totally different way of being in the world. Mankind, Pedler believes, stands at a critical point in history and has to reassess its relationship and the web of interactions that make up the total life-form of the planet. Pedler calls this life-form Gaia, after the Greek earth mother goddess, a being whose sole concern is the survival of the planet itself. Mankind is provoking the wrath of the life-form by its high technology, accelerating entropy and production of planetary disorder. Can we halt the technological Behemoth and live in harmony with the planet again? Kit Pedler says 'yes, we can, indeed, that we have no choice but to do so'. He outlines highly practical ways every individual can change his or her way of life to reduce our personal entropy debt. Do we need to eat factory-farm beef rather than, the sun-product, grain? Must be build homes from steel and concrete rather than, the renewable earth-product, timber? Is there an alternative to expensive, and ecologically destructive, drugs? From experiments with his own lifestyle Kit Pedler comes to some profoundly optimistic conclusions. He demonstrates how low-entropy living can have unexpected rewards, from restoring our respect for the creatures with which we share the earth, greater independence and freedom through learning abandoned skills and, above all, by the recovery of a lost vision, once possessed by our forefathers, which enables us to see and feel in ways forgotten by industrial man. The Quest for Gaia is an exhilarating and optimistic book, and a challenge to capture a rewarding and sustainable future for ourselves and our earth. It is a blueprint for the Age of Gaia.
Weighing The World
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Author : Edwin Danson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Weighing The World written by Edwin Danson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with Science categories.
At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? In Weighing the World, master-surveyor and bestselling author Edwin Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars who cut their way through jungles, crossed the artic tundra, and braved the world's highest mountains to discover the truth about our Earth. Danson also recounts the extraordinary experiment, conducted on a desolate Scottish peak by Astromer Royal Neville Maskelyne, to understand the so-called "attraction of mountains," the curious capability mountians have to bend gravity, without which it would be impossible to accurately map Earth's surface. A spell-binding scientific adventure story, Weighing the World will intrigue anyone curious about the shape of our planet and how we have come to know it.
Blind Descent
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Author : James M. Tabor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-07-28
Blind Descent written by James M. Tabor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong. In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. Bold, American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk - Stone's opposite in temperament and style - had targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia. Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover - to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep and many more miles from their caves' exits. They had to contend with thousand-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, and much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called 'The Rapture'. Blind Descent is a testament to human survival and endurance - and to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph and depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.