Our Concept of the Earth: What We Know About Our Planet and How It Was Discovered

— —

Lapo Boschi

Our Concept of the Earth

What We Know About Our Planet and How It Was Discovered

Lapo Boschi

$266.95 $213.50

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Springer International Publishing AG
26 January 2025

Geophysics; Geology & the lithosphere

With its new, unique look at the physics of the earth and at how this field got to where it is today, this is not a conventional textbook, but could easily be used as one. Designed to be understood by readers with no background in the earth sciences and only little previous knowledge of math and physics, Our Concept of the Earth differs from other geophysics books in that it places geo-scientific concepts in their historical context: ideas are presented in chronological order, according to the moment they emerged, one in response to the other, throughout the history of the discipline. In this way, the material covered in any given section of the book rests on simpler previously established concepts that are explained earlier in the book. The book is extremely self-contained and lends itself to being read from beginning to end, an experience that will captivate and even entertain a broad range of readers in academia and beyond.

By: Lapo Boschi
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2024 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783031715785
ISBN 10: 3031715780
Pages: 850
Publication Date: 26 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lapo Boschi is an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Padua, Italy; his research (H-index=32 according to SCOPUS, over 100 publications on international peer-reviewed journals) covers a variety of different, but not unrelated topics, from tectonics and seismic tomography, to the auditory display of scientific data, to bioacoustics. He received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Bologna and Harvard University, respectively. Besides Padua, he has taught geophysics and wave physics at the University of Naples, ETH Zurich (2004–2012), Pierre and Marie Curie/Sorbonne University (2012–2018), ICTP Trieste. At Sorbonne, he has taught courses about the history of ideas in the geosciences and about multidisciplinary science, which contributed to inspiring this book project. He has long been interested in communicating advanced science to (relatively) wide audiences.