jueves, 7 de mayo de 2026

Tierra (planeta)

from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Earth (planet)

Early works

Miscellaneous

Early works

Burnet, Thomas. Telluris Theoria Sacra. Natural philosophy. 2 vols. 1681-9.

_____. A Sacred Theory of the Earth. Trans. of vol. 1 of Telluris Theoria Sacra. 1684.

_____. Sacred Theory of the Earth. London: Norton, 1691.

_____. The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes Which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo Till the Consummation of All Things. The Two First Books Concerning The Deluge and Concerning Paradise. The Third Edition Review'd by the Author. London: Printed by R. N. for Walter Kettiby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1697.* Online at Google Books:

https://books.google.es/books?id=pt33OCWIB6EC

2019

Halley, Edmund. "A Short Account of the Cause of the Saltiness of the Ocean, and of the Several Lakes that Emit on Rivers; with a Proposal, by Help Thereof, to Discover the Age of the World." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 29 (1714-16): 296-300.

_____. "A short Account of the Cause of the Saltness of the Ocean, and of the several Lakes that emit no Rivers; with a Proposal by help thereof, to Discover the Age of the World." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 29 (issue 344, 1 Jan. 1714): 290-300. Online PDF (1 Jan. 1997):*

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1714.0031

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1714.0031

2019

Hutton, James. "Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe." Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 (1788): 209-304.

_____. Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations. Edinburgh, 1795.

_____. "Teoría de la Tierra." 1785, 1788. Trans. Cándido Manuel García Cruz. Enseñanza de las ciencias de la Tierra 12.2 (2005): 153-205.

Juan, Jorge, and Antonio de Ulloa. Relación Historica del viage a la América Meridional. Hecho de Orden de S. Mag. Para medir algunos grados de Meridiano Terrestre, y venir por ellos en conocimiento de la verdadera Figura, y Magnitud de la Tierra, con otras Varias Observaciones Astronomicas, y Phisicas; Por Don Jorge Juan, Comendador de Aliaga, en el Orden de San Juan, Socio correspondiente de la Real Academia de las Ciencias de Paris, y Don Antonio de Ulloa, de la Real Sociedad de Londres; ambos Capitanes de fragata de la Real Armada. Primera Parte, Tomo Primero. Impressa de orden del Rey Nuestro Señor En Madrid Por Antonio Marin, Año de M.DCC.XLVIII.*

Marsh, George Perkins. The Earth as Modified by Human Action. 1874.

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de. Sur la figure de la terre. 1738.

Orthelius. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 1574.

Whiston, William. New Theory of the Earth. 1696. (Vs. Burnet).

Woodward, John. (1665-1728). Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth. 1695.

Miscellaneous

Asimov, Isaac. Frontiers. Essays. Nightfall, Inc., cop. 1987, 1988, 1989.

_____. Fronteras y otros ensayos. Trans. Josep Ferrer i Aleu. Barcelona; Edicones B, 1994.*

Attenborough, David. Life on Earth: A Natural History. London: Collins, 1979.

_____. The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth. London: Collins, 1984.

_____. El planeta viviente. Barcelona: Salvat, 1995.

Barnes, C. W. Earth, Time and Life. New York: John Wiley, 1980.

Christian, David. "3. Origins and History of the Earth." In Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004. 2005. 57-76.*

Clark, Stephen R. L. How to Think About the Earth. 1993.

Darlrymple, G. Brent. "How Old Is the Earth? A Reply to 'Scientific' Creationism." In Evolutionism Confronts Creationists: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ed. F. Awbrey and W. M. Thwaites. 1.66-131.

Delibes, Miguel, and Miguel Delibes de Castro. La tierra herida: ¿qué mundo heredarán nuestros hijos? 2005.

Dott, R. H., Jr. "James Hutton and the Concept of a Dynamic Earth." In Toward a History of Geology. Ed. Cecil J. Schneer. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 1967.

"Drilling the Ocean Floor for Earth's Deep Secrets." Valley News 21 Aug. 1995.

"The Earth's Mantle." Nature 2 Aug. 2001: 501-6.

Gardner, Martin. On the Wild Side. Buffalo (NY): Prometheus Books, 1992. (Pseudoscience; Parapsychology, vs. John Rhine; vs. Wilhelm Reich; Vs. Earth as organism., vs. Reagan and astrology; vs. telepreachers; vs. spiritism, vs. Biblical literalism; Science and Christianity).

_____. Extravagancias y disparates. Prologue by Vladimir de Semir. Trans. Jordi Fibla. (Campo de Agramante – Libros para la Controversia). Barcelona: Martínez Roca - Alcor, 1993.*

Gould, Stephen J. "The Late Birth of a Flat Earth." In Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. 1996. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 38-50.*

_____. "El nacimiento tardío de una tierra plana." In Gould, Un dinosaurio en un pajar. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997. 51-62.*

Hands, John. "12. Un planeta idóneo para la vida." In Hands, Cosmosapiens: La evolución humana desde los orígenes del universo. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2017. 271-316.*

Hapgood, Charles H. Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earth Science. Prologue by Albert Einstein. New York: Pantheon, 1958. (Vs. Plate tectonics).

Hartmann, William K. The History of Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of an Evolving Planet. London: Workman Publishing, 1991.

"Journey to the Centre of the Earth." New Scientist Suppl. 14 Oct 2000: 1.

Kohler, Pierre. Histoire de notre planète. Librairie Académique Perrin, 1991.

_____. Historia de nuestro planeta. Trans. Pedro J. Salas Peralta. Madrid: Alianza, 1993.*

Lewis, Cherry. The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Lovelock, James. "Gaia as seen through the Atmosphere." Atmospheric Environment 6 (1972): 579.

_____. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: Norton, 1988.

_____. Las edades de Gaia. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1993.

_____. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

_____. The Revenge of the Earth: Wy the Earth Is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity. 2006. (Ecology, technology, progress, energy, global warming).

_____. La venganza de la Tierra: Por qué la Tierra está rebelándose y cómo podemos todavía salvar a la humanidad (Cover subtitle: La teoría de Gaia y el futuro de la Humanidad). Trans. Mar García Puig. (Biblioteca Divulgación Científica). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2007.*

Luhr, James F., gen. ed. Earth. UK: Pearson Education-Dorling Kindersley, 2003.

_____. Tierra. Madrid: Pearson -Alhambra, 2004.* (I. El planeta. II. La tierra. III. El océano. IV. La atmósfera. V. La tectónica).

Morin, Edgar, and Anne Brigitte Kern. Terre-Patrie. Paris: Seuil, 1993. Rpt. (Points, 207). Paris: Seuil, 1996.

Morin, Edgar, and Christoph Wulf. Planète, l'aventure inconnue. Paris: Mille et Une Nuits, 1997.

"Much About Motion in the Mantle." Science 1 Feb. 2002.

Novacek, Michael. Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem — and the Threats that Now Put it at Risk. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Officer, Charles, and Jake Page. Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Overbye, Dennis. "Earth, the marvelous blue orb." New York Times 2 April 2015.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/science/earth-the-marvelous-blue-orb.html

2015

Ozima, Minoru. The Earth: Its Birth and Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Parker, Ronald B. Inscrutable Earth: Explorations in the Science of Earth. New York: Scribner's, 1984.

Powell, James Lawrence. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998.

_____. Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth. New York: Simon and Schuster / Free Press, 2001.

"The Rocky Road to Dating the Earth." Nature 4 Jan. 2001: 20.

Romm, James. (Bard College). The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought. Princeton: Princeton UP, forthcoming 1993.

Russell, J. B. Inventing the Flat Earth. New York: Praeger, 1991.

"Sculpting the Earth from Inside Out." Scientific American (March 2001).

Stager, Kurt. El futuro profundo: Los próximos 100.000 años de vida en la Tierra. Trans. Joan Lluís Riera. (Drakontos). Barcelona: Crítica, 2012.* (Climate change).

Tarbuck, Edward J., and Frederick K. Lutgens. Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. Illust. Dennis Tasa. 8th ed. Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005.

_____. Ciencias de la Tierra: Una introducción a la geología física. Illust. Dennis Tasa. 8th ed. Book + CD. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 2011.*

_____. "12. El interior de la tierra." In Ciencias de la tierra. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 341-60.*

_____. "22. Geología planetaria." In Ciencias de la tierra. Madrid: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2005. 623-52.*

Vogel, Shawna. Naked Earth: The New Geophysics. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Ward, Peter D., and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Copernicus, 1999.

Wegener, Alfred. Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane. 1912. Rev. ed. 1920. (English ed. 1915).

_____. El origen de los continentes y océanos. Trans. Francisco Anguita Virella and Juan Carlos Herguera García. Introd. Agustín Udías Vallina. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1996.*

Blogs

Dot Earth. Blog at New York Times (Andrew Revkin)

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

2015

Films

The Whole History of the Earth and Life [Finished Edition]. Dir. Hiromitsu Kohsaka. Documentary. Exec. Prod. Shigenori Maruyama. Hadean Bioscience Project / Live Creation and Technology. Online at YouTube (Kaoru GreenEmerald) 7 June 2019.*

https://youtu.be/NQ4CUw9RcuA

2020

Images

NASA. "The Pale Blue Dot: Self-Portrait." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 15 Feb. 2022.*

https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-pale-blue-dot-self-portrait.html

2022

_____. "Bright 'Evening Star' Seen from Mars Is Earth." NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2 June 2014.*

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17936

2014

Journals

Earth (June 1996).

Física de la Tierra