An edition of A natural history of time (2007)
A natural history of time
By Pascal Richet
Publish Date
2007
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
471
Description:
A history of how the Earth's age was determined by the ancient Greeks (eternal) through the Judaeo-Christian tradition (a handful of millennia) to particle physics (4.5 billion years).
subjects: Geological time, Age, Earth (planet), chronology, the scientific method, geology, paleontology
People: Aristotle, Henri Bacquerel, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon comte de (1707-1788), Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Edmond Halley (1656-1742), Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Alfred Nier, Clair C. Patterson, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)
Places: the Earth