Title: A natural history of time
Description: A history of how the Earth's age was determined by the ancient Greeks (eternal) through the Judaeo-Christian tradition (a handful of millennia) to particle physics (4.5 billion years).
Subjects: Geological time, Age, Earth (planet), chronology, the scientific method, geology, paleontology
Places: the Earth
People: Aristotle, Henri Bacquerel, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon comte de (1707-1788), Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Edmond Halley (1656-1742), Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Alfred Nier, Clair C. Patterson, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)