A History of Modern Planetary Physics. Three volumes * Vol. 1: Nebulous Earth – The Origin of the Solar System and the Core of the Earth from Laplace to Jeffreys. Vol. 2: Transmuted Past – The Age of the Earth and tne Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson. Vol. 3: Fruitful Encounters – The Origin of the Solar System and of the Moon from Chamberlin to Apollo..
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Taylor, S. Past views of the planets. Nature 384, 227–228 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/384227a0
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