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



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Autore: Burchfield Joe D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth / / Joe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1990
Edizione: University of Chicago Press edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages) : portraits
Disciplina: 551.7
Soggetto topico: SCIENCE / General
Soggetto geografico: Earth (Planet) Age
Soggetto non controllato: well known, science, scientist, thermodynamic, laws, earth, age, aging, british, victorian, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, physics, physicist, astronomer, astronomy, geology, geologist, biology, biologist, geologic, time, college, university, textbook, higher ed, professor, teacher, classroom, educational, overview, biography, darwin, wallace, debate, controversy, radioactivity, dating, reaction, scale
Note generali: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Science History Publications, 1975.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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
Titolo autorizzato: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-05813-8
9786613058133
0-226-08026-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809465303321
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