Download or read book Artificial Earth A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity written by J. Daniel Andersson and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, that anthropogenic environmental change has become so prevailing that it ought to be conceived of as a force of nature, in the literal sense of the expression. Artificial Earth argues that to fully grasp the stakes of this discourse, we need not only understand the contemporary scientific and technological transformations behind the Anthropocene, but also explore the history of an ontological concern tied up with it. In order to do so, Artificial Earth examines reflections on the ontological dualism between nature and artifice within the history of earth science from the late eighteenth century onwards. Paying particular attention to its consequences for how human subjectivity has been conceptualized in the Anthropocene, it then enrolls these resources in an effort to problematize attempts since the 1980s to formalize earth science in systems theoretical terminology. In sum, the aim is to investigate the historical conditions for the possibility of conceiving human artifice as an integral part of the earth's terrestrial environment, with the conviction that such an investigation may assist in resolving the aforementioned contradiction or at least to understand it better by tracing its historical lineage. J. Daniel Andersson is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department for Thematic Studies, Linköping University. His research interests lie at the intersection between the technical cultures, political imaginaries, and historical processes that have shaped the ways in which the global environment has been understood and valued. A general fascination with how concepts and discursive vocabularies become solidified in scientific modes of organization has consistently informed his theoretical and methodological approaches. He has previously written about, for instance, the relationship between future-orientation and valuation in integrated assessment models, climate engineering as a sociotechnical imaginary, and the intellectual history of risk management in global change science. His writing has appeared in journals such as Environment & Planning, Anthropocenes, and Cosmos & History.
Download or read book Use of Artificial Earth Satellites for Geodesy written by A. P. Polezhayev and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of Stations for Optical Observations of Artificial Earth Satellites written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artificial Earth Satellites and Successful Solar Probes 1957 1960 written by Walter H. Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optical Observation of Artificial Earth Satellites written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analytic Study of the Magnetic Field Encountered by Artificial Earth Satellites in Circular Orbits written by Ward F. Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophies of Nature After Schelling written by Iain Hamilton Grant and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and crucial account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature, now available in paperback.
Download or read book Artificial Earth written by Andrea Avataneo and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how everyday life could be on an artificial planet? Well, you are just on the right place. Imagine yourself catapulted few hundred years in the future. Get ready to travel in time but not in distance: because the planet concerned is not light years from you, this is happening just underneath your feet... Due to overuse of natural resources and heavy pollution production, the Earth is a planet in a coma. Planet Earth stopped all its vital functions: there is no wind, no rain, no ocean currents, no sunlight, no seasons. New habitable planet exploration and colonization is expensive, risky and with doubtful results. Human beings decided to stay on Earth and invest all their efforts in building machines able to reproduce Earth's environments and its natural functions. Huge fans are used to simulate wind and ocean currents, gigantic water containers are flying around to replicate rain, giant street lights are mounted with large lamps to recreate sunlight. Our former Planet Earth has been renamed Artificial Earth. Tom is an engineer who designs and develops the machines which keep Artificial Earth a habitable place for human beings. Tom is also a part-time elementary school teacher who explains his pupils how former Planet Earth used to be and how present Artificial Earth works. He never lived on Former Earth, he was born on Artificial Earth. What he knows about Former Earth, he learned it at the downtown library. When trying to explain his pupils the differences between our former and artificial planet, he soon realizes that who is really learning something is him. Tom is now able to see things through his pupils' eyes, who never lived on Former Earth and lived so little on Artificial Earth. Clear and obvious things Tom has studied at school and experienced in his life, become now questionable. Welcome to Artificial Earth.
Download or read book Motion of Artificial Satellites in the Earth s Gravitational Field written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Super Earths written by Dimitar Sasselov and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astronomy professor at Harvard University discusses the possibilities of finding other worlds that sustain alien life forms, citing recent breakthroughs in biology and exoplanetary astronomy, including the recent discovery of arsenic-based bacteria in a California lake.
Download or read book Motion of an Artificial Satellite in an Eccentric Gravitation Field written by Vladimir Grigorʹevich Demin and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stability of the Solar System and Its Minor Natural and Artificial Bodies written by V.G. Szebehely and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is this editor's distinct pleasure to offer to the readership the text of the lectures presented at our recent NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy between August 6 and August 17, 1984. The invited lectures are printed in their entirety while the seminar contributions are presented as abstracts. Our Advanced Study Institutes were originated in 1972 and the reader, familiar with periodic phenomena, so important in Celestial Mechanics, will easily establish the fact that this Institute was our fifth one in the series. We dedicated the Institute to the subject of stability which itself is a humbling experience since it encompasses all fields of sciences and it is a basic element of human culture. The many definitions in existence and their practical applications could easily fill another volume. It is known in this field that it is easy to deliver lectures or write papers on stability as long as the definition of stability is carefully avoided. On the other hand, if one selects a definition, he might be criticized for using that definition and not another one. In this volume we carefully defined the specific concept of stability used in every lecture. If the reader wishes to introduce other definitions we feel that he should be entirely free and we encourage him to do so. It is also known that certain sta bility definitions and concepts are more applicable to certain given fields than to others.
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Download or read book The Shape and Size of the Earth written by Dino Boccaletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period. The origins of the notion of the sphericity of the Earth are explained, dating back to Eratosthenes and beyond, and detailed attention is paid to the struggle to establish key discoveries as part of the cultural heritage of humanity. In this context, the roles played by the Catholic Church and the philosophers of the Middle Ages are scrutinized. Later contributions by such luminaries as Richer, Newton, Clairaut, Maupertuis, and Delambre are thoroughly reviewed, with exploration of the importance of mathematics in their geodetic enterprises. The culmination of progress in scientific research is the recognition that the reference figure is not a sphere but rather a geoid and that the earth’s shape is oblate. Today, satellite geodesy permits the solution of geodetic problems by means of precise measurements. Narrating this fascinating story from the very beginning not only casts light on our emerging understanding of the figure of the Earth but also offers profound insights into the broader evolution of human thought.
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