Books in the A History of Modern Planetary Physics 3 Volume Hardback set series

Fruitful Encounters surveys the development of twentieth-century theories on the solar system's beginnings. By placing great emphasis on the findings of the Apollo space programme, Professor Brush also discusses ideas about the origin of the Moon, culminating in the establishment of the 'giant impact' theory.

Transmuted Past summarizes the attempts to estimate the age of the Earth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Nebulous Earth follows the development of the nineteenth-century's most popular explanation for the origin of the solar system, Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis.