Books by A. H. Cook

This is the full text of the inaugural lecture for the Jacksonian Chair at the University of Cambridge, given by A. H. Cook in 1973, with the subject of the Astronomer as Natural Philosopher.

In this book Alan Cook explains how the mechanical properties of the planets are determined, how planetary materials behave at high pressure, and how celestial mechanics and the quantum physics of highly condensed matter may be combined to determine the general constitution of the planets.