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200 10$aLord Kelvin and the age of the earth /$fJoe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword
205   $aUniversity of Chicago Press edition.
210  1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d1990.
215   $a1 online resource (281 pages) $cportraits
300   $aReprint. Originally published: New York : Science History Publications, 1975.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tI. Introduction --$tII. Kelvin and the Physics of Time --$tIII. Kelvin's Influence: The Initial Reception --$tIV/ The Triumph of Limited Time --$tV. Opposition and Controversy --$tVI. Radioactivity and the Age of the Earth --$tVII. Conclusion --$tAfterword --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aBurchfield 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, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"-Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology
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