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The Dating Game : One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

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The story of one man's vision of developing a geological timescale which lasted fifty years despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy. Arthur Holmes fought to convince The Establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science. How old is the Earth? At the end of the 19th century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers were all looking for a clock that would provide an answer to this greatest Time question of all. Here is the story of one man's vision in developing a geological time scale that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth.

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551.7 LEW d

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2002

Collation

26cm., 251p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780521893121

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551.7 LEW d

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Subject(s)

DP00152

Specific Detail Info

Pluit Putri Library

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LEWIS, Cherry

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