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The Chronologers’ Quest
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108462532
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.02.2018
Seiten:
310
Autor:
Patrick Wyse Jackson
Gewicht:
452 g
Format:
229x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Patrick Wyse Jackson is a lecturer in Geology and curator of the Geological Museum in Trinity College, Dublin, and is a member of the International Commission on the History of Geology.
Investigates the methods used to determine the Earth's age from those with little scientific background to scientists in Earth sciences.
List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ancients: early chronologies; 2. Biblical calculations; 3. Models of Aristolean 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. Stratigraphic 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; Sources; Index.