The Biosphere: Complete Annotated Edition (repost)
Vladimir I. Vernadsky, "The Biosphere: Complete Annotated Edition"
Springer | 1998 | ISBN: 038798268X | 192 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
Springer | 1998 | ISBN: 038798268X | 192 pages | PDF | 8,2 MB
Though long unknown in the West, Vladimir Vernadsky's The Biosphere, first published in 1926, revolutionized our view of life on Earth. In it he set forth his idea that the emergence of life can be viewed as an astrophysical phenomenon subject to physical laws governing the interactions of matter and energy, and that the biosphere has profound effects on Earth's climate, its landforms, and the contents of its atmosphere. These ideas helped found numerous scientific fields and originated the concept of life a geological force that forms the foundation of Gaia theory. Although Vernadsky's work diffused across the Iron Curtain out of Soviet Russia only slowly and indirectly, the concept of the biosphere in use today is largely his.