The Swedish Nobel Prize-winning chemist turns to the heavens: the origin of star-worship, the riddle of the Milky Way, the role of water vapour in climate, the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres, and the prospects for life on Mars and Venus. His arguments rest on molecular speeds, temperatures and the escape of gases into space.
A fascinating snapshot of early twentieth-century cosmology by a pioneer of calculations of carbon dioxide’s effect on climate. Download the free EPUB.