The Scientific Papers of Sir George Darwin
Supplementary Volume

This final volume of the collected papers of Sir George Darwin, published after his death, includes a biographical memoir.

George Howard Darwin (Author), F. J. M. Stratton (Edited by), J. Jackson (Edited by)

9781108004480, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

148 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.9 x 0.8 cm, 0.23 kg

Sir George Darwin (1845–1912) was the second son of Charles Darwin. After studying mathematics at Cambridge he read for the Bar, but soon returned to science and to Cambridge, where in 1883 he was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. His work was concerned primarily with the effect of the sun and moon on tidal forces on Earth, and with the theoretical cosmogony which evolved from practical observation: he formulated the fission theory of the formation of the moon (that the moon was formed from still-molten matter pulled away from the Earth by solar tides). He also developed a theory of evolution for the Sun–Earth–Moon system based on mathematical analysis in geophysical theory. This volume, published in 1916 after the author's death, includes a biographical memoir by his brother Sir Francis Darwin, his inaugural lecture and his lectures on George W. Hill's lunar theory.

Preface
1. Memoir of Sir George Darwin by his brother Sir Francis Darwin
2. The scientific work of Sir George Darwin by Professor E. W. Brown
3. Inaugural lecture
4. Introduction to dynamical astronomy
5. Lectures on Hill's lunar theory
6. On librating planets and on a new family of periodic orbits
7. Address to the International Congress of mathematicians at Cambridge in 1912
Index.

Subject Areas: Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS]