A natural history of time
Richet, Pascal2007
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Main title:
A natural history of time / Pascal Richet ; translated by John Venerella.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Collation:
xiv, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-453) and index.
Contents:
Time without a beginning? -- On the great book of Moses -- Genesis as viewed through the prism of natural philosophy -- Nature's admirable medals -- The march of the comets -- Heroic age, relative time -- The long history of two barons -- The elasticity of time -- The Pandora's box of physics -- The Sun, the Earth, radioactivity--and Kelvin's death -- The long quest of Arthur Holmes -- From the atomic bomb to the age of the Earth.
ISBN:
9780226712871 (cloth alk paper)0226712877 (cloth alk paper)
Dewey class:
551.701
LC class:
QE508
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
138459
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