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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Author: Joe D. Burchfield
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226080437
ISBN-10: 0226080439
Publication Date: 5/15/1990
Pages: 278
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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