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Burchfield charts the enormous impact made by Lord Kelvin's application of thermodynamic laws to the question of the earth's age and the heated debate his ideas sparked among British Victorian physicists, astronomers, geologists, and biologists.
"Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"--Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology
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Early in 1869, some nine years after his now legendary encounter with Bishop Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley found himself again the advocate for a beleaguered scientific theory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lunar genesis, secular cooling argument, solvent denudation, time from geology, pleochroic halos, tidal retardation, geological uniformity, helium dating, geological calculations, terrestrial cooling, mechanical antecedents, internal fluidity, geological dynamics, chemical denudation, meteoric theory, geological estimates, internal conductivity, radioactive dating, physical estimates, planetesimal hypothesis, few geologists, radioactive change, geological methods, popular geology, radioactive heating Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Association, Lord Kelvin, Geological Survey, Clarence King, George Darwin, Charles Darwin, Letters of Wallace, Age of the Sun's Heat, Charles Lyell, Mellard Reade, Principles of Geology, Ultimate Disintegration Products, Energies of the Solar System, John Phillips, More Letters of Darwin, Archibald Geikie, James Hutton, Kelvin the Man, Osmond Fisher, Surface-History of the Earth, Arthur Holmes, Collected Papers, Death of Adam, Dissipation of Mechanical Energy, Even Kelvin New!
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Early in 1869, some nine years after his now legendary encounter with Bishop Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley found himself again the advocate for a beleaguered scientific theory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lunar genesis, secular cooling argument, solvent denudation, time from geology, pleochroic halos, tidal retardation, geological uniformity, helium dating, geological calculations, terrestrial cooling, mechanical antecedents, internal fluidity, geological dynamics, chemical denudation, meteoric theory, geological estimates, internal conductivity, radioactive dating, physical estimates, planetesimal hypothesis, few geologists, radioactive change, geological methods, popular geology, radioactive heating Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Association, Lord Kelvin, Geological Survey, Clarence King, George Darwin, Charles Darwin, Letters of Wallace, Age of the Sun's Heat, Charles Lyell, Mellard Reade, Principles of Geology, Ultimate Disintegration Products, Energies of the Solar System, John Phillips, More Letters of Darwin, Archibald Geikie, James Hutton, Kelvin the Man, Osmond Fisher, Surface-History of the Earth, Arthur Holmes, Collected Papers, Death of Adam, Dissipation of Mechanical Energy, Even Kelvin New!
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- Island Life (Great Minds Series) by Alfred Russel Wallace on 4 pages
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- Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 by Gregory Clancey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences (Norton History of Science) by Peter J. Bowler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Systematicity Arguments (Studies in Brain and Mind) by Kenneth Aizawa on page 241, and Back Matter
- The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences by Peter J. Bowler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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