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The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth (Canto Classics)

By Lewis C.

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-107-65959-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14092729 bytes)
Series
Canto Classics
Edition
Reissue ed.
Pages
272\272
Topic
Geology
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2013-12-29 19:00:00
Горно-геологическая отрасль;История и методология

Description

In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great antiquity of the earth, stating that it was 'perhaps a little indelicate to ask of our Mother Earth her age, but Science acknowledges no shame'. Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts

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