The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth
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The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, and religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the fascinating story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book investigates the many novel methods used in the search for the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, and from Comte de Buffon and Lord Kelvin determining the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to the more recent investigations of Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson into radioactive dating of rocks and meteorites. The Chronologers' Quest is a readable account of the measurement of geological time. It will be of great interest to a wide range of readers, from those with little scientific background to students and scientists in a wide range of the Earth sciences.
目次
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The ancients: early chronologies
- 2. Biblical calculations
- 3. Models of Aristolean infinity and sacred theories of the Earth
- 4. Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters: early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth
- 5. Thinking in layers: early ideas in stratigraphy
- 6. An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy
- 7. The cooling Earth
- 8. Stratigraphic laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column
- 9. 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory
- 10. The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments
- 11. Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited
- 12. Oceanic salination reconsidered
- 13. Radioactivity: invisible geochronometers
- 14. The universal problem and duck soup
- Sources
- Index.
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