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

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, geolo…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780521893121
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26cm., 251p.
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551.7 LEW d