The Moon A Popular Treatise
By Garrett Putman Serviss
Length5h 44m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: ""The savant who originally demonstrated the earthly origin of the moon," I replied, "is not one to be easily led into extravagance by his imagination. It is Prof. George Darwin, the son of the famous author of the 'Origin of Species.' I shall not mention his mathematics, which are troublesome, but allow me to tell you, in a word, that his investigations have satisfied astronomers that the earth and the moon once composed a single body. How many million years ago that was we can only guess. The causes of the separation which eventually occurred were the plastic condition of the original body while it was yet hot and molten, its swift axial rotation producing an immense centrifugal force at its equator, and the attraction of the sun raising huge tides which affected its entire mass instead of affecting only the waters of the ocean as the tides do at present. At last there came a time when an enormous portion of the swiftly rotating globe was torn loose. That portion included about one-eightieth of the entire mass of the earth. Some astronomers and geologists think that the 'wound' left in the side of the earth by this stupendous excision is yet traceable in the basin of the Pacific Ocean."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.4 (14)
Includes Goodreads
GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
5III FULL MOON TO OLD MOON
2INTRODUCTION
6IV GREAT SCENES ON THE MOON
3I NEW MOON TO FIRST QUARTER
7APPENDIX
4II FIRST QUARTER TO FULL MOON
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