Book description
Argues that comets occasionally strike the Earth causing climatic changes and that they have had a greater effect on human history than previously believed
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This book trail-blazed the new scientific discipline of coherent catastrophism back in 1982. Based on ideas in a couple of their earlier academic papers, Profs. Clube and Napier make the case for an important new class of cosmic impact event, one caused by fragmenting comets trapped within the inner solar system.
I found the book to be essential reading to understand how such events can occur and how they have hitherto been largely overlooked by science. It introduced me to a fascinating new view of the solar system. I also found it interesting to see how, in the intervening 40…
From Martin's list on coherent catastrophism.
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