| A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Volume 2, the Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson: Transmuted Past Contributor(s): Brush, Stephen G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521101468 ISBN-13: 9780521101462 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Transmuted Past summarizes the attempts to estimate the age of the Earth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Science | Physics - Astrophysics |
| Dewey: 523.209 |
| Series: History of Modern Planetary Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.48 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Transmuted Past follows the development of theories of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis in the twentieth century and describes radiometric methods for estimating the age of the Earth. Professor Brush also offers perspectives on the changing reputation of planetary science relative to the pure sciences, such as physics, and a comparison of history and geology as ways of studying the past. |
