Andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies : Vol. 9/10, 2020/21
William Collins Donahue;Georg Mein;Rolf Parr;William Collins Donahue;Georg ...
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Andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies : Vol. 9/10, 2020/21
2022; Vol. 00009
andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features contributions by Leo A. Lensing, Norman M. Klein, Jens M. Gurr, and Julia Faisst.
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The Tooth of Time: Alfred Wegener .
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Geoscience Canada. Jul2012, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p102-111. 10p.
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Hoffman, Paul F.
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Geoscience Canada. Jul2012, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p102-111. 10p.
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Geologische Rundschau; Feb1981, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p
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Geologische Rundschau; Feb1981, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p
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Naturwissenschaften; 1980, Vol. 67 Issue 7, p321-331, 11p
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Strobach, Klaus
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Naturwissenschaften; 1980, Vol. 67 Issue 7, p321-331, 11p
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Alfred Wegener's most important work, the theory of continental drift, has a key posit...
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Alfred Wegener's most important work, the theory of continental drift, has a key position in the history of geophysics and has crucially advanced the discussion of this central problem of geodynamics amongst supporters and adversaries. The aim of this paper is to paint a portrait of Wegener's personality, of his stations of life, and of his interests and research work. The conceptions of the origin of continents and oceans prior to Wegener , and the further development of his ideas after his death on the ice cup of Greenland 50 years ago are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Naturwissenschaften; 1980, Vol. 67 Issue 7, p321-331, 11p
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Erkenntnisse und Irrtümer in Medizin und Naturwissenschaften; 2014, p207-256, 50p
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Erkenntnisse und Irrtümer in Medizin und Naturwissenschaften; 2014, p207-256, 50p
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Kopff, A.
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Astronomische Nachrichten; 1931, Vol. 242 Issue 14, p263-264, 2p
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In search of historical roots of the meteorite impact theory: Franz von Paula Gruithuisen as the first proponent of an impact cratering model for the Moon in the 1820s.
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Meteoritics Oct2019, Vol. 54 Issue 10, p2600-2630, 31p
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Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774–1852), the Bavarian medic, physician, and astronomer...
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In search of historical roots of the meteorite impact theory: Franz von Paula Gruithuisen as the first proponent of an impact cratering model for the Moon in the 1820s.
Meteoritics Oct2019, Vol. 54 Issue 10, p2600-2630, 31p
Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774–1852), the Bavarian medic, physician, and astronomer, enfant terrible of German science, is known for his insightful observations and many extravagant conceptions. However, since the seminal monograph of Baldwin (1949), he is also referenced for early contributions to the meteoritic origin concept of lunar craters. His most commonly cited paper of 1828 is analyzed here for the first time in some detail. For Gruithuisen, impact phenomena were only an outcome of a more general cosmogenic theory, which assumed planet and satellite growth by concentric shell‐like coalescence of the cosmic bodies. The aggregation theory thus defined was initiated in 1794 by Chladni, developed by the Bierberstein brothers and Anton Zach. Gruithuisen was notably the first person to formulate a nascent concept of lunar crater mechanics. This cratering process, as he thought, is based on an uneven gravitational subsidence of concentrically layered spherical impactors (=the solid core of comet) into the plastic sediments. Only the more resistant and heavy central portion of the body was submerging deeper, and therefore, the circular terrace‐like rim of the ring mountains was formed. Gruithuisen tried also to recognize terrestrial equivalents of large‐scale crater‐like mountains on the Moon, and speculated on other impact consequences, such as a catastrophic influence on the history of the biosphere and a cometary source of the terrestrial hydrosphere. These ideas found several conceptual followers in the vital German science of the last decades of 19th century. Thus, despite principal errors in the gravitationally penetrative cratering model, we confirm the claim of recognition of Gruithuisen as one of the founders of the impact hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Craters On The Moon From Galileo To Wegener : A Short History Of The Impact Hypothesis, And Implications For The Study Of Terrestrial Impact Craters.
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Earth, Moon Nov1998, Vol. 85-86 Issue 0, p209-224, 16p
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Koeberl, Christian
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Earth, Moon Nov1998, Vol. 85-86 Issue 0, p209-224, 16p
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Craters On The Moon From Galileo To Wegener : A Short History Of The Impact Hypothesis, And Implications For The Study Of Terrestrial Impact Craters.
Earth, Moon Nov1998, Vol. 85-86 Issue 0, p209-224, 16p
The origin of lunar craters has been discussed for centuries,since they were discovered by Galilei in 1609. The majority of researchers were of the opinion that they are volcanic structures, but a variety of “exotic” explanations that included tidal forces, circular glaciers, and coral atolls was also considered. The meteorite impact hypothesis had been discussed a few times, starting with Hooke in 1665, and formulated in more detail by Proctor in 1873 and Gilbert in 1893. However, this theory only gained momentum early in the 20th century, after the identification of Meteor Crater in Arizona as an impact structure, and after specific and plausible physical models for impact craters formation were devised by Öpik in 1916, Ives in 1919, and Gifford in 1924. Nevertheless, despite growing evidence for the interpretation that most craters formed by impact, proponents of the volcanic theory impact were still vociferous as late as 1965, just four years before the first samples were brought back from the moon. Important lessons could have been learned for the study of impact craters on the Earth, especially in view of evidence that large impactevents had some influence on the geologic and biologic evolution of the Earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 1993 Supplement, Vol. 84, p52-220, 169p
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 1993 Supplement, Vol. 84, p52-220, 169p
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Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; 1993 Supplement, Vol. 84, p52-220, 169p
A bibliographic citations of articles and books related to history is presented including "Stonehenge: Creating a Definitive Account," by Andrew J. Lawson in the 1992 issue of "Antiquity," "Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology," by Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth, and "Mathematical Terms in Babylonian Literary Texts," by Kazuo Muroi in the 1992 issue of "Kagakusi Kenkyu."
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HOOKES AND SPURRS IN SELENOLOGY.
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 1965, Vol. 123 Issue 2, p373-402, 30p
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Green, J.
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 1965, Vol. 123 Issue 2, p373-402, 30p
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Ernst Julius Öpik's (1916) note on the theory of explosion cratering on the Moon's surface-The complex case of a long-overlooked benchmark paper.
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Meteoritics Oct2014, Vol. 49 Issue 10, p1851-1874, 24p
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Racki, Grzegorz;Koeberl, Christian;Viik, Tõnu;Jagt‐Yazykova, Elena A.;Jagt,...
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High-velocity impact as a common phenomenon in planetary evolution was ignored until w...
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Ernst Julius Öpik's (1916) note on the theory of explosion cratering on the Moon's surface-The complex case of a long-overlooked benchmark paper.
Meteoritics Oct2014, Vol. 49 Issue 10, p1851-1874, 24p
High-velocity impact as a common phenomenon in planetary evolution was ignored until well into the twentieth century, mostly because of inadequate understanding of cratering processes. An eight-page note, published in Russian by the young Ernst Julius Öpik, a great Estonian astronomer, was among the key selenological papers, but due to the language barrier, it was barely known and mostly incorrectly cited. This particular paper is here intended to serve as an explanatory supplement to an English translation of Öpik's article, but also to document an early stage in our understanding of cratering. First, we outline the historical-biographical background of this benchmark paper, and second, a comprehensive discussion of its merits is presented, from past and present perspectives alike. In his theoretical research, Öpik analyzed the explosive formation of craters numerically, albeit in a very simple way. For the first time, he approximated relationships among minimal meteorite size, impact energy, and crater diameter; this scaling focused solely on the gravitational energy of excavating the crater (a 'useful' working approach). This initial physical model, with a rational mechanical basis, was developed in a series of papers up to 1961. Öpik should certainly be viewed as the founder of the numerical simulation approach in planetary sciences. In addition, the present note also briefly describes Nikolai A. Morozov as a remarkable man, a forgotten Russian scientist and, surprisingly, the true initiator of Öpik's explosive impact theory. In fact, already between 1909 and 1911, Morozov probably was the first to consider conclusively that explosion craters would be circular, bowl-shaped depressions even when formed under different impact angles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
