Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth / Joe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword.

Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists. "Anyone interested in geologic time, an...

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Main Author: Burchfield, Joe D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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505 0 |a Preface; I. Introduction; II. Kelvin and the Physics of Time; III. Kelvin's Influence: The Initial Reception; IV. The Triumph of Limited Time; V. Opposition and Controversy; VI. Radioactivity and the Age of the Earth; VII. Conclusion; Afterword; Bibliography; Index. 
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