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An edition of A natural history of time (2007)

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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).

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
471

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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)

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the Earth
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2010, University of Chicago Press
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2009, University of Chicago Press
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June 1, 2007, University Of Chicago Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: A natural history of time
A natural history of time
2007, University of Chicago Press
in English

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QE, QE508 .R5413 2007, QE508.R5414 2007

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xiv, 471 p. :
Number of pages
471

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OL22755416M
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naturalhistoryof00rich
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2006033992
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73742568
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3353798
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1143405

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