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