The little book of planet Earth / Маленькая книга планеты Земля

Because scientific inquires and discoveries are and have always been affected by history, a retrospective view of the historical development of the earth sciences seems a good place to begin our discussion of the planet Earth. While this historical survey is necessarily brief—this is, after all, a Little Book—it will establish the foundations of modern earth science and introduce important thinkers and scholarly developments. <...>