Time and age
Subtitle: time machines, relativity, and fossils
By: Michael Mark Woolfson, University of York, UK
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781783265831; 9781783265848
Subjects: Time measurements; Clocks and watches; History; Space and time; Special relativity (Physics); Statistical astronomy; Age; Geological time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The measurement of time; title: Astronomical time; title: Early recording of time; title: Mechanical clocks; title: Modern timekeeping; title: Time and space; title: The age of the universe; title: The ages of globular clusters and young stars; title: The age of the solar system; title: The age of the continents; title: The ages of fossils; title: The history of life on earth; title: The ages of archaeological remains.