Aeons
Subtitle: the search for the beginning of time
By: Martin Gorst.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Time.; Cosmology.
Description: The story of man's attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher's confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope's images of a world 13 billion years old.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.