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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vernadskii, V. I. (Vladimir Ivanovich), 1863–1945
[Biosfera. English]
Geochemistry and the biosphere/essays by Vladimir I. Vernadsky; translation from the 1967 third Russian edition by Olga Barash; edited by Frank B. Salisbury; introduction by Alexander Yanshin.
p. cm.
ISBN–13: 978–0–907791–36–2 (alk. paper)
ISBN–10: 0–907791–36–0 (alk. paper)
1. Geochemistry. 2. Biogeochemistry. 3. Biosphere. I. Salisbury, Frank
B. II. IAnshin, Aleksandr Leonidovich, 1911-III. Title.
QE515.V3913 2007
551.9–dc22
2005054713
Photos reproduced with permission of the Commission on Elaboration of Scientific Heritage of Academician V. I. Vernadsky, Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Cover image of Crab Nebula courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Biosphere by V. I. Vernadsky was first published in 1926 in Leningrad, USSR. Three years later it was published in France (La Biosphère, Paris Alkan, 1929, 232 pp.). The Biosphere was published in Russian for the fourth time as part of the selected works of V. I. Vernadsky, which included his publication Essays on Geochemistry, under the general title, Бчocфepa Biosféra; English: The Biosphere, edited by A. I. Perelman, (Mysl Publishers, Moscow, 1967, 373 pp.)