Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth /
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, an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | Burchfield, Joe D. |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1990.
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Edición: | University of Chicago Press ed. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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