num_pages: 279
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."Anyone interested in geologic time, and that should include all geologists and a fair smattering of biologists, physicists and chemists, should make Burchfield's commendable and time-tested volume part of their personal library"—Brent Darymple, Quartely Review of Biology
language: English
title: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
titlecomplete: Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
characters: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
genres: Science
ratings_count: 7
publisher: University of Chicago Press