附註:Based on 'Celebrating the age of the earth', the Geological Society's William Smith Millennium Meeting, June 2000--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Celebrating the age of the Earth / S.J. Knell & C.L.E. Lewis -- Before the hills in order stood : the beginning of the geology of time in England / J.G.C.M. Fuller -- European views on terrestrial chronology from Descartes to the mid-eighteenth century / E. Vacarri -- Buffon, Desmarest and the ordering of geological events in époques / K.L. Taylor -- Jean-André de Luc and nature's chronology / M.J.S. Rudwick -- Timeless order : William Smith (1769-1839) and the search for raw materials 1800-1820 / H.S. Torrens -- Genesis and geochronology : the case of John Phillips (1800-1874) / J. Morrell -- 'Had Lord Kelvin a right?' : John Perry, natural selection and the age of the Earth, 1894-1895 / B.C. Shipley -- John Joly (1857-1933) and his determinations of the age of the Earth / P.N. Wyse Jackson -- Arthur Holmes' vision of a geological timescale / C.L.E. Lewis -- The age of the Earth in the United States (1891-1931) : from the geological viewpoint / E.L. Yochelson & . C.L.E. Lewis -- Is the Earth too old? The impact of geochronology on cosmology, 1929-1952 / S.G. Brush -- The oldest rocks on Earth : time constraints and geological controversies / B.S. Kamber, S. Moorbath & M.J. Whitehouse -- The age of the Earth in the twentieth century : a problem (mostly) solved / G.B. Dalrymple -- Lead isotopes and the age of the Earth -- a geochemical accident / A.W. Hofmann -- Fossils as geological clocks / J.H. Callomon -- Time, life and the Earth / A. Manning -- Dating the origin of modern humans / C.B. Stringer -- Understanding the beginning and the end / M.J. Rees.
摘要:The age of the Earth has long been a subject of great interest to scientists from many disciplines, particularly geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers. This volume brings together contributors from these different subjects, along with historians, to produce a comprehensive review of how the Earth's age has been perceived since ancient times.
