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The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth / Patrick Wyse Jackson,... |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
, cop. 2006 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XVII-291 p.) |
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The chronologers' quest |
- 1, The ancients: early chronologies
- 2, Biblical calculations
- 3, Models of Aristotelian 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, Stratigraphical 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