Chronologers' Quest

Name: Chronologers' Quest
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521813327
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The Search for the Age of the Earth

Autor: Patrick Wyse Jackson

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted ph...

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Autor

Patrick Wyse Jackson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2006

Pagini

310

EAN

9780521813327

ISBN

0521813328

Enbook ID

02044658

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

620

Dimensiuni

199 x 197 x 19

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The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the fascinating story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book investigates the many novel methods used in the search for the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, Comte de Buffon and Lord Kelvin determining the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to the more recent investigations of Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson into radioactive dating of rocks and meteorites. The Chronologers' Quest is a readable account of the measurement of geological time. It will be of great interest to a wide range of readers, from those with little scientific background, to students and scientists in a wide range of the earth sciences.

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