Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Description
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.
Keywords
ScienceEarth SciencesGeology
1975Book
Author(s)Joe Donald Burchfield
PublisherMacmillan
ISBN9780333181096
LanguageEnglish
