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A natural history of time / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Veneralla.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2010.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 471 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226712895
  • 0226712893
Uniform titles:
  • Âge du monde. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural history of time.DDC classification:
  • 551.7/01 22
LOC classification:
  • QE508 .R5413 2010eb
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Contents:
Time without a beginning? -- On the great book of Moses -- Genesis as viewed through the prism of natural philosophy -- Nature's admirable medals -- The march of the comets -- Heroic age, relative time -- The long history of two barons -- The elasticity of time -- The Pandora's box of physics -- The Sun, the Earth, radioactivity-- and Kelvin's death -- The long quest of Arthur Holmes -- From the atomic bomb to the age of the Earth -- Appendix. Mathematical complements.
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Translation of: L'âge du monde : à la découverte de 'immensité du temps.

Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-453) and index.

Time without a beginning? -- On the great book of Moses -- Genesis as viewed through the prism of natural philosophy -- Nature's admirable medals -- The march of the comets -- Heroic age, relative time -- The long history of two barons -- The elasticity of time -- The Pandora's box of physics -- The Sun, the Earth, radioactivity-- and Kelvin's death -- The long quest of Arthur Holmes -- From the atomic bomb to the age of the Earth -- Appendix. Mathematical complements.

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