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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth

English · Paperback / Softback

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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"


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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.

Product details

Authors Joe D. Burchfield, Burchfield Joe D.
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.05.1990
 
EAN 9780226080437
ISBN 978-0-226-08043-7
No. of pages 278
Dimensions 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
Weight 397 g
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology

SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, Historical Geology, Historical geology and palaeogeology

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