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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.
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Book Title: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
Authors: Joe D. Burchfield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02565-7
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Science History Publications 1975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Geology