Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Author: Joe D. Burchfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990-05-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0226080439
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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Brilliant Blunders
Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1439192375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
The Age of the Earth
Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey
Author: Archibald W Hendry
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9813279710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First — the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Creation 4004 BC figured out? A date which is so important even today ... it is the basis of claims made by millions that the Earth is only about 6000 years old. Next — the response of geologists (and Darwin) for a very old Earth. Then, Kelvin's calculation of how long it would take for a hot Earth to cool down to its present state. And finally, today's answer ('billions'), based on the properties of radioactive materials. So, how old is Planet Earth?Related Link(s)
Energy and Empire
Author: Crosbie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-10-26
Total Pages: 906
ISBN-13: 9780521261739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.
History of Heat Transfer
The Age of the Earth
Author: G. Brent Dalrymple
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780804723312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A synthesis of all that has been postulated and is known about the age of the Earth
The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
Author: Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 1108027172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive biography, first published in 1910, of the influential mathematician and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907).
The Dating Game
Author: Cherry Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1107659590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
