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The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth /
The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book invest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The ancients : early chronologies
- Biblical calculations
- Models of Aristotelian infinity and sacred theories of the Earth
- Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters : early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth
- Thinking in layers : early ideas in stratigraphy
- An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy
- The cooling Earth
- Stratigraphical laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column
- 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory
- The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments
- Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited
- Oceanic salination reconsidered
- Radioactivity : invisible geochronometers
- The universal problem and duck soup.