Fascinating Cosmogony (Eureka Series)

A book of essays exploring the hypotheses devised by humankind to explain the origin of the planets, stars, and galaxies. It also looks at some of the creators of these theories—from ancient philosophers and priests through to modern astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians. The mysteries of the universe powerfully draw humanity towards them. One of these is how the Solar System and the systems of other stars originated and developed. There have been many assumptions on this matter, but all of them were speculative in nature. It is only in our time—the era of automatic interplanetary probe flights—that we have managed to measure some things directly on celestial bodies and put forward more reliable hypotheses. This book discusses the modern view on the genesis of our world and the processes of world formation. About the Author A. Tomilin is an Institute lecturer and a member of the Writers' Union. Fascinating Cosmogony is not the author's first book. Young readers have frequently encountered his name on the pages of magazines and in scientific and artistic collections. Several works published by the Detskaya Literatura publishing house belong to him, including the book The Earth's Sky, as well as Fascinating Astronomy and Fascinating Cosmology Molodaya Gardiya. This new book by A. Tomilin, which the publishers offer to their readers, is also dedicated to one of the fundamental sciences of the universe. Illustrations: V. Koovyneo Translated from the Russian & typeset in LaTeX by Damitr Mazanav From the Translator This is the third book I am translating the Eureka series. The author A.N. Tomilin has written several popular science books. Since the book was written in 1975, several speculative hypotheses presented in the book have not been sup- ported by data. To indica