A Natural History of Time
Contributors: John Venerella (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 2007
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: L’âge du monde: À la découverte de l’immensité du temps
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780226712871
Copyright date: 1999, 2007
Subjects: Historical geology; History of ideas, intellectual history; Earth Sciences - Geology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Geology; Science; Age; Earth; Geological time; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: Perhaps for its malleability, that humble clay we find sticking to our feet on moist pathways has always had a prodigious destiny within the realm of cosmogony.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Time Without Beginning?
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: On the Great Book of Moses
pagenum: 24; label: 3
title: Genesis as Viewed through the Prism of Natural Philosophy
pagenum: 54; label: 4
title: Nature’s Admirable Medals
pagenum: 85; label: 5
title: The March of the Comets
pagenum: 114; label: 6
title: Heroic Age, Relative Time
pagenum: 143; label: 7
title: The Long History of Two Barons
pagenum: 176; label: 8
title: The Elasticity of Time
pagenum: 206; label: 9
title: The Pandora’s Box of Physics
pagenum: 237; label: 10
title: The Sun, the Earth, Radioactivity—and Kelvin’s Death
pagenum: 264; label: 11
title: The Long Quest of Arthur Holmes
pagenum: 288; label: 12
title: From the Atomic Bomb to the Age of the Earth
pagenum: 320; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 350; title: Appendix: Mathematical Complements
pagenum: 355; title: Source Notes
pagenum: 357; title: Suggestions for Further Reading and Reference
pagenum: 373; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 409; title: Index
pagenum: 455