A natural history of time /
Richet, Pascal.
A natural history of time / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Veneralla. - Pbk. ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Bristol : University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 471 pages) : illustrations
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.
Translation of: L'âge du monde : à la découverte de 'immensité du temps.
9780226712895 (electronic bk.) 0226712893 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
1AA3963A-7E82-45C4-BF2C-CE65C2CD72E9 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Geological time.
Géochronologie.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Planets--Age.
Geological time.
Earth (Planet)--Age.
Terre--Âge.
Earth (Planet)
Electronic books.
QE508 / .R5413 2010eb
551.7/01
A natural history of time / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Veneralla. - Pbk. ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Bristol : University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 471 pages) : illustrations
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.
Translation of: L'âge du monde : à la découverte de 'immensité du temps.
9780226712895 (electronic bk.) 0226712893 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
1AA3963A-7E82-45C4-BF2C-CE65C2CD72E9 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Geological time.
Géochronologie.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Planets--Age.
Geological time.
Earth (Planet)--Age.
Terre--Âge.
Earth (Planet)
Electronic books.
QE508 / .R5413 2010eb
551.7/01