Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Title | Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Joe D. Burchfield |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 1990-05-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226080439 |
Portrait of Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Title | Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Joe D. Burchfield |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975 |
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Brilliant Blunders
Title | Brilliant Blunders PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Livio |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439192375 |
"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"--
Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey
Title | Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Archibald W Hendry |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 2020-01-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9813279710 |
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)
The Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life. By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin,...
Title | The Age of the Earth as an Abode Fitted for Life. By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin,... PDF eBook |
Author | William Thomson baron Kelvin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Age of the Earth
Title | The Age of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Holmes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Earth |
ISBN |
Energy and Empire
Title | Energy and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Crosbie Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 906 |
Release | 1989-10-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521261739 |
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.