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The age of everything : how science explores the past / / Matthew Hedman
| The age of everything : how science explores the past / / Matthew Hedman |
| Autore | Hedman Matthew <1974-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 930.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Archaeological dating
Archaeology - Technological innovations Radiocarbon dating Science - History Geochronometry |
| ISBN |
9786612538483
9781282538481 1282538489 9780226322940 0226322947 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The calendars of the classic Maya -- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids -- The physics of carbon-14 -- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air -- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world -- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright -- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals -- Meteorites and the age of the solar system -- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars -- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe -- Parameterizing the age of the universe. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971369903321 |
Hedman Matthew <1974->
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
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Geologic time scale bookmark [[electronic resource]]
| Geologic time scale bookmark [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 unnumbered page) |
| Soggetto topico |
Geological time
Geology - Periodicity Geology, Stratigraphic Historical geology Bookmarks |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910701717003321 |
| [Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2012] | ||
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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism / / edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz
| Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism / / edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 296.3/4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CantorG. N. <1943->
SwetlitzMarc <1958-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution - Religious aspects - Judaism
Evolution (Biology) - Religious aspects - Judaism Judaism and science Creation |
| ISBN |
9786611959319
9781281959317 1281959316 9780226093017 0226093018 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Anglo-Jewish responses to evolution / Geoffrey Cantor -- Responses to evolution by Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis in twentieth-century America / Marc Swetlitz -- "Practically, I am a fundamentalist" : twentieth-century Orthodox Jews contend with evolution and its implications / Ira Robinson -- The impact of social Darwinism on anti-Semitic ideology in Germany and Austria, 1860-1945 / Richard Weikart -- The evolution of Jewish identity : Ignaz Zollschan between Jewish and Aryan race theories, 1910-1945 / Paul Weindling -- Zionism, race, and eugenics / Raphael Falk -- Crisis management via biblical interpretation : fundamentalism, modern Orthodoxy, and Genesis / Shai Cherry -- Torah and madda? : evolution in the Jewish educational context / Rena Selya -- Modern Orthodoxy and evolution : the models of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi A.I. Kook / Carl Feit -- The order of creation and the emerging God : evolution and divine action in the natural world / Lawrence Troster. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971511203321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 | ||
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Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth / / Joe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword
| Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth / / Joe D. Burchfield ; with a new afterword |
| Autore | Burchfield Joe D |
| Edizione | [University of Chicago Press edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 pages) : portraits |
| Disciplina | 551.7 |
| Soggetto topico | SCIENCE / General |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
9786613058133
9781283058131 1283058138 9780226080260 0226080269 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910961546303321 |
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Burchfield Joe D
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| Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1990 | ||
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A natural history of time / / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Venerella
| A natural history of time / / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Venerella |
| Autore | Richet Pascal |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (487 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.7/01 |
| Soggetto topico | Geological time |
| ISBN |
9786613664334
9781280687396 1280687398 9780226712895 0226712893 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Time without a Beginning? -- 2. On the Great Book of Moses -- 3. Genesis as Viewed through the Prism of Natural Philosophy -- 4. Nature's Admirable Medals -- 5. The March of the Comets -- 6. Heroic Age, Relative Time -- 7. The Long History of Two Barons -- 8. The Elasticity of Time -- 9. The Pandora's Box of Physics -- 10. The Sun, the Earth, Radioactivity-and Kelvin's Death -- 11. The Long Quest of Arthur Holmes -- 12. From the Atomic Bomb to the Age of the Earth -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Mathematical Complements -- Source Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading and Reference -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910969531403321 |
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Richet Pascal
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| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
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Time matters : geology's legacy to scientific thought / / Michael Leddra
| Time matters : geology's legacy to scientific thought / / Michael Leddra |
| Autore | Leddra Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 269 p. ) : ill., ports |
| Disciplina | 551.7/01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Geological time
Sequence stratigraphy Historical geology |
| ISBN |
9786613204820
9781444323269 1444323261 9781283204828 1283204827 9781444323252 1444323253 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Geological time. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 The historical perspective. 1.2.1 The march of the scientists. 1.2.2 The atomic age. 1.3 Geological time and the age of Mother Earth. 2 Dating rocks. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 The nature of stratigraphy and the principles of relative dating. 2.3 Biostratigraphy. 2.4 Radiometric dating. 2.4.1 Potassium. 2.4.2 Rubidium. 2.4.3 Uranium. 2.4.4 Carbon. 2.4.5 Mass spectrometer. 2.5 Dating by fi ssion tracks. 2.6 Magnetism. 2.6.1 Thermal remnant magnetism. 2.6.2 Depositional remnant magnetism. 2.6.3 Palaeo-magnetism and Polar wandering. 3 The origins of the geological time scale. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Jurassic. 3.3 Carboniferous. 3.4 Triassic. 3.5 Tertiary. 3.6 Cambrian. 3.7 Silurian. 3.8 Devonian. 3.9 Permian. 3.10 Mississippian. 3.11 Quaternary. 3.12 Ordovician. 3.13 Cretaceous. 3.14 Pennsylvanian. 3.15 Proterozoic. 3.16 Archean and Hadean. 4 Plutonism versus Neptunism. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Neptunism. 4.3 Plutonism. 5 Uniformitarianism versus Catastrophism. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Catastrophism. 5.3 Diluvialism. 5.4 Uniformitarianism. 5.5 Mass extinctions. 5.6 Alternating warm and cold conditions. 5.7 Catastrophes and the nature of science. 5.8 Palaeogeography and Earth history. 6 Evolution. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Darwin and evolution. 6.3 Punctuated equilibrium and geographic speciation. 6.4 Intermediates - what are we looking for? 7 Evolution versus Creationism. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Fossils. 7.2.1 The Medieval view. 7.2.2 The 17th- and 18th-century view. 7.2.3 The 19th-century view. 7.2.4 Mantell versus Owen. 7.3 Famous Evolution versus Creation debates. 7.3.1 Huxley versus Wilberforce. 7.3.2 Huxley versus Gladstone. 7.3.3 The abolition of the equal time laws in America. 7.3.4 The nature of life and science, and Evolution versus Creationism. 7.4 Lagerstatten. 8 Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Mountain building. 8.3 Isostasy. 8.4 Continental Drift. 8.5 Plate Tectonics. 9 What have we learnt? Bibliography. Index. |
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Leddra Michael
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| Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2010 | ||
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