The chronologers' quest : (Record no. 515781)
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| control field | UkCbUP |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511617782 (ebook) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521813327 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
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| Geographic area code | x------ |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QE508 |
| Item number | .W97 2006 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 550 |
| Edition number | 22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wyse Jackson, Patrick, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The chronologers' quest : |
| Remainder of title | episodes in the search for the age of the earth / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Patrick Wyse Jackson. |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
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| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
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| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The ancients : early chronologies -- Biblical calculations -- Models of Aristotelian infinity and sacred theories of the earth -- Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters : early empirical measurements of the age of the earth -- Thinking in layers : early ideas in stratigraphy -- An infinite and cyclical earth and religious orthodoxy -- The cooling earth -- Stratigraphical laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column -- 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory -- The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments -- Thermodynamics and the cooling earth revisited -- Oceanic salination reconsidered -- Radioactivity : invisible geochronometers -- The universal problem and duck soup. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the fascinating story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book investigates the many novel methods used in the search for the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, Comte de Buffon and Lord Kelvin determining the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to the more recent investigations of Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson into radioactive dating of rocks and meteorites. The Chronologers' Quest is a readable account of the measurement of geological time. It will be of great interest to a wide range of readers, from those with little scientific background, to students and scientists in a wide range of the earth sciences. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Geochronometry. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Geological time. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521813327 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617782">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617782</a> |
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